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Or arrogance, if you prefer. He has Cha Seung Baek's "forget you, I'm throwing that meatball again, you can't stop me" with some sort of deception that Baek didn't have on a mediocre straight fastball.
The Rangers' announcers agreed with me all night. "Man, some guys throw 91 and it FEELS 95. They're a fastball hitting lineup and they're juuuust a little late on all these fastballs."
They were talking about how Beavan said when he was drafted (by the Rangers) that he was ready to help the big league club right then. It jibes with some of the comments he's made here. Of course I'm ready to compete. Of course I'm a plus major league pitcher. Of course I deserve to take the mound every 5th day.
He REALLY believes in himself. And so far, despite my belief that he has zero weapons capable of sustaining this, he simply refuses to believe - or act - otherwise. DaddyO was talking about how self-doubt makes everything harder, and self-belief can be self-fulfilling. Beavan is big on speaking into existence his major league career. This was the 6th 1-0 game in the HISTORY of the Rangers at that stadium. He threw 8 shutout innings down there last year.
If I could put his head on Noesi's shoulders....yeesh.
As it is, please make that breaker an out pitch so we can get a couple more K/9, please.
~G
PS - I hate Feliz, and I REALLY hate the Rangers this year. I haven't hated them in a while, but we haven't had a team I wanted to believe in for a while either. These last two games have SUCKED.