Morning Dump — Thursday, March 17th

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:56:29 +0000

I know it’s just spring and we can’t panic over one start, but Jason Hammel looked like crap last night. His pitches were elevated and out over the plate. He gave up eight runs in three innings — three were earned. Hammel himself caused a lot of damage when he air-mailed an Ian Kinsler bunt attempt into right field. Jason said he wasn’t worried about last night’s performance, blaming it on some old habits. All I know is that he can’t pitch like that when the regular season begins.

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“Basically I just took a step backwards to last year. All the stuff I did last year when things got in trouble. I tried to start throwing harder … a very, very rookie mistake. It wasn’t going the way I wanted, so from there I decided to try and overpower it with more aggressiveness and basically complicated the matter. A small step back, but I’m not going to get frustrated. It’s only one outing. … I’m not going to roll the snowball bigger.” — Jason Hammel

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Morning Dump — Thursday, March 17th