Jeff, you capture my attention, the true gift of an artist. I love your desire to complement, reflecting a desire to please. I love it mostly because it so effectively counter-balances your desire to win. Your love of competition and the desire to win appears to be the well spring of you love of sport, but you couter-balance this love of winning with a love of understanding. This allows you to praise the insights of others and keep your alpha-ego in proportion.
On the actual topic of discussion, Hultzen has very good pitching talent, but not special talent. He is not Felix Hernandez, or Bobby Witt for that matter. Neither is Cliff Lee, but that doesn't seem to help the hitters. Hultzen is fun because he wasn't the color-by-numbers call, but the intersection of superior talent (not special talent) with superior intellect, focus, and athleticism (for a pitcher) makes for compelling drama. Did the the M's front office just bank on a pitcher's supreme pitchability? What is the expected success rate of such a call?
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