Weav's rehab start - FB mostly 82 MPH

[bloodbrother]

Inland Empire 66ers ‏@66ersBaseball 13m13 minutes ago

Weaver ' s night is done. He goes 3.2 innings 3h, 2k, 2b, 1 run.

 

 

Alden Gonzalez ‏@Alden_Gonzalez now7 seconds ago

Scout on Weaver: Mostly 82 w/ fastball, lots of slow curves, location better late, body still getting ahead of his arm in delivery at times.

Edited July 31, 2015 by bloodbrother

[Jason]

Threw a lot of pitches too

[robblin17]

I'm guessing slow.

[101halo]

Agreed on the velocity, and suppose we can chalk the walks up to rust, but between that (guys in high A don't tend to be all that patient against breaking stuff yet) and the hits... would like to see another rehab start before adding him back. Doubt they'll do that though.

[AngelsFaninGA]

Inland Empire 66ers ‏@66ersBaseball 13m13 minutes ago

Weaver ' s night is done. He goes 3.2 innings 3h, 2k, 2b, 1 run.

 

Don't care about the numbers....want to know what his velocity was

 

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[bloodbrother]

Alden Gonzalez ‏@Alden_Gonzalez now7 seconds ago

Scout on Weaver: Mostly 82 w/ fastball, lots of slow curves, location better late, body still getting ahead of his arm in delivery at times.

 

Ugh

[Tyler]

Two highest paid pitchers on the team are arguably the worst on the 40-man roster. Yikes.

[tomsred]

...and this is why we can't afford to deplete the pitching in the farm system.

[bloodbrother]

Two highest paid pitchers on the team are arguably the worst on the 40-man roster. Yikes.

 

Both will be occupying rotation spots as well

[gotbeer]

So this is what concerns me. 

 

Come playoff time.  Teams will have a Price to wheel out 3 times a series if necessary.  Or a Kershaw.  Or a Scherzer.  In other words, veterans, good veterans.  

 

For the Angels, we have CJ and Weaver.  Richards has never appeared in a playoffs.  And Santiago got rocked last season in his only playoff appearance.  

 

I really think we needed to trade for a vet starting pitcher.  

[Angels_Make_Me_Drink]

He is done. The writing was on the wall in years past, but it seems like his fall from almost elite level to 5th starter was faster than usual b

[VariousCrap]

Stick a fork in him, he's done.

 

[ettin]

Angels best chance in a playoff series is to run some combination of Richards, Santiago, Shoemaker, and Heaney out. Wilson has a bad history in the postseason (and might be traded by tomorrow night anyway) and Weaver, whom I love dearly, is a shadow of his former self in terms of his actual ability. Weave is still a great competitor with as much heart as any Angels player in the history of the franchise but when you're stuff is failing it shows.

[OregonLAA]

If we get in the playoffs despite Scioscia's bullshit, I'm very afraid he will run out Weaver and Wilson. If that happens and we go out in the 1st round he better be canned.

[Oz27]

It's a bad enough mistake to have Weaver and Wilson both in the rotation now. If we get to the division series, are we going to see it then too? Scary.

[arch stanton]

I see a trip to the 60 day for Mr Weaver

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Fastballs of 82 MPH are indicative of a much deeper problem. This isn't encouraging at all.

[fan_since79]

Wouldn't it be something if Heaney turns out to be our best starter this year?

[Sully151]

Didn't this rapid decline happen with his brother too?

[fan_since79]

career innings pitched:

 

Weaver  1,784

Wilson  1,430

Richards  521

Santiago  470

Shoemaker  238

Heaney  69.2

[Oz27]

Wouldn't it be something if Heaney turns out to be our best starter this year?

If we had a one game playoff right now, you'd have to seriously think about going with him. The only three who'd even be worth discussing based on recent performance would be Heaney, Shoemaker and Richards.

[Guest]

Didn't this rapid decline happen with his brother too?

 

Pretty much. Not long ago I described our rotation as follows:

 

Garrett Richards

CJ Wilson II

Matt Shoemaker

CJ Willson III

Jeff Weaver

CJ Wilson <-- long relief guy

 

Where Wilson II and Wilson III are Santiago and Heaney, respectively.

[tomsred]

If we had a one game playoff right now, you'd have to seriously think about going with him. The only three who'd even be worth discussing based on recent performance would be Heaney, Shoemaker and Richards.

 

No one is pitching a playoff game right now, there is a long way to go until we hit the finish line.......and that's a good thing, a very good thing.  This team has a lot to sort out.

[mp170.6]

Fastballs of 82 MPH are indicative of a much deeper problem. This isn't encouraging at all.

 

Greg Maddux in his final year at age 42 had a fastball at 84-85 MPH. 

 

That's how much trouble Weaver is in right now. 

[Oz27]

Greg Maddux in his final year at age 42 had a fastball at 84-85 MPH.

That's how much trouble Weaver is in right now.

No exaggeration, that's not much faster than Moyer was throwing at the END of his career.