Lidge absolutely fascinates me — he’s like the Frank Sinatra of closers. You know how Sinatra said that he had a “over acute capacity for sadness as well as elation.” Lidge has been either unreasonably great like he was in 2004, 2005 and 2008, or virtually unpitchable like he was last year and in 2006. The wild-swing makes him mysterious. I think he might my favorite pitcher in baseball, non-Brian Bannister Division.
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Joe Posnanski, in his latest blog entry. “When I was thirty-two, it wasn’t a very good year…” |
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