Koo, Koo, Ka-choo
Click here for a recap of last night’s game.
I haven’t had a chance to read very much today but I’m sure that many people are questioning Willie Randolph’s call to have Dae-Sung Koo come in to pitch the 9th inning instead of Braden Looper. I actually have no problem with this call outside of having to listen to Fran Healy say “Mr. Koo” a couple of hundred times. (If I hear him say it one more time I can’t be held responsible for my actions.)
Randolph is almost in a spring training like mode when it comes to his pitching staff since he’s got a surplus of arms and must decide very soon how he’d like to deploy them. So naturally Randolph would want to see the arms in question as much as possible before having to decide what to do. Given that Koo is on the bubble and there were 3 left handed batters up Randolph chose to pitch Koo. Yes, the game was on the line but what better situation could you find to see if Koo has the stuff you need? I’m thinking that Koo will probably stick despite his performance last night simply because he’s the only lefty in the pen. If that’s the case then the lesson learned from last night is that the team desperately needs another lefty reliever.
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I think we can official say good0bye to Manny Aybar after this afternoon’s performance. Up until the Reds series, I was highly against Mr. KOO, but I think he has performed as well as could be hoped in the first two games of the series. What are your thoughts on Strickland?