Matt Clement

You're just going to have to take the good with the bad.

There's not a lot of contact against him.

He threw a lot of fastballs last night.

They didn't make a lot of contact on them.

So you're going to continually get swings and misses, deep counts, walks.

And I say this all the time.

Like if I'm facing schemes, I'm to a fault taking a ton of pitches because I want to ride that pitch count out and get him out of the game.

They're going to do the same thing with Chandler because this is a fastball that he's telling you is coming.

It has so much high zone rise on it.

at 100 miles an hour still late in that game they want to get him out of the game so people are going to go after that whether he's wild or not and some days it's going to turn into 14 strikeouts because he's pinpoint and some days it's going to turn into six blocks and six strikes and he was just angrily grunting off the mound at times you could just see the look and the snare on his face like

Well, Kurt being a former teammate of mine, he has some valid points, but I feel like we're not looking at the whole picture of this thing right now.

This is how they're teaching it, and that's probably what he's talking about.

Him and Maddox and even Clemens, these guys were so smooth and repeatable in their mechanics.

Andy Pettit, his era of the great pitchers in his era, Randy Johnson was kind of the outlier who he pitched with and teamed with as one of the great rotations.

But they're so smooth.

And now you're teaching 12-year-olds to throw like Bubba Chandler is right now.

Because by the time you're 16, a college isn't looking at you if you're not throwing hard enough.

So that's just the new era of what people are doing.

To him, that's broken, right?

To Kurt Schilling, that's broken.