Does Kris Medlen remind anybody of Greg Maddux?

[bendoski]

I watched his last 8 starts on mlb.com, and he reminds me of Maddux. I'm not saying he is Maddux. Not overpowering stuff, but he can really, really command the baseball (with movement). Is it just me?

[The Dane]

I watched his last 8 starts on mlb.com, and he reminds me of Maddux. I'm not saying he is Maddux. Not overpowering stuff, but he can really, really command the baseball (with movement). Is it just me?

He also kind of looks like Roy Oswalt to me. In one of my leagues, I had him as my best keeper (in my mind) at $1 and kept trying to trade him for a run, but no one was interested. One guy called him "a failed middle reliever." I couldn't unload him. Then Votto got injured and my whole team collapsed so I wouldn't have had a chance anyway, so now I'm "stuck" with a cheap Medlen in the middle of the pack. Sometimes things just work out for the best.

[Judge Jude]

Yes, he IS the Maddux type.
Nobody can be Maddux, but 80 pct of that would be excellent anyway.

Braves have won his last 19 starts, longest team streak since Clemens/Yankees about a dozen years ago.
I think he lost a start himself last in 2010 or so (not that he's pitched that much).

finally got dinged today for a 2-run HR by Ronny Cedeno, but they always say, you can't stop Ronny - you only hope to contain him....

[onejayhawk]

Yes, he IS the Maddux type.
Nobody can be Maddux, but 80 pct of that would be excellent anyway.

Braves have won his last 19 starts, longest team streak since Clemens/Yankees about a dozen years ago.
I think he lost a start himself last in 2010 or so (not that he's pitched that much).

finally got dinged today for a 2-run HR by Ronny Cedeno, but they always say, you can't stop Ronny - you only hope to contain him....

Maddux was called the 2nd coming of Christy Matheson. So you could say that he is not truly unique. That is pretty fast company though.

J

[nullnor]

Maddux was called the 2nd coming of Christy Matheson. So you could say that he is not truly unique. That is pretty fast company though.

J

thus the phrase we get to where we are on the shoulders of giants.

[bweiser831]

He also kind of looks like Roy Oswalt to me. In one of my leagues, I had him as my best keeper (in my mind) at $1 and kept trying to trade him for a run, but no one was interested. One guy called him "a failed middle reliever." I couldn't unload him. Then Votto got injured and my whole team collapsed so I wouldn't have had a chance anyway, so now I'm "stuck" with a cheap Medlen in the middle of the pack. Sometimes things just work out for the best.

be happy.

my biggest draft regret - i had him pegged as a late $1 target but filled up my pitching and had no room left for him.

[onejayhawk]

thus the phrase we get to where we are on the shoulders of giants.

"We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours."

Isaac Newton

J

[Judge Jude]

But Newton wrote that letter to colleague Charles Hooke, who was really short. I recall that Stephen Jay Gould, the great scientist/writer, wrote in one of his books in the 1990s about how Newton wasn't necessarily just being poetic.

[onejayhawk]

But Newton wrote that letter to colleague Charles Hooke, who was really short. I recall that Stephen Jay Gould, the great scientist/writer, wrote in one of his books in the 1990s about how Newton wasn't necessarily just being poetic.

Sir Isaac is not remembered as a nice man.

J

[Don Quixote]

Sir Isaac is not remembered as a nice man.

J

Hey, he did say "we".