starting pitchers there are five of them and they're all pretty good and Joe be gen would be the sixth but he'll be in the bullpen to start the year that's not a lot of depth so hopefully those pitchers who are excellent will stay healthy they did this last year but sometimes that's an anomaly in and of itself after that the health too of Troy
When we got to the courthouse level, we had to walk past some bullpens . And when we went past the bullpens , they were populated with a bunch of individuals who were awaiting trial who had just been arrested or being processed into their division.
time to develop as a catcher. So he went to winter ball where the same thing happened. They basically used him to catch bullpens . But he knew if he was going to be a pro baseball player, he had to learn how to catch. And the only team he could play for was on the other side of the island. And he was driving in a -- well you can read about it in the book but basically he had a car that was not road safe that he was driving in to get to
Yeah, and it's also the commiseration. And not very many people have that experience of you're just in the bullpen . And then you finally get-- and then Kevin got called like, you know.
number is retired by the team now you talk about some of the uh dimensions of the park you have to bring up the wall in right field or a death trap in right field it's the bullpen was constructed by tom yawkey in 1940 as a way to help ted williams hit home runs because ted williams hit a lot to right field so
players they can be firm when they have to be but they have a light sense of humor and they let you play one thing about cedo pitchers if they got into a jam they said later I never had to look over my shoulder into the bullpen to see if someone was warming up or if hitter was do up he never had to look over his shoulder to see if he's going to pinch
followup almost every spring there's sort of one player who catches people off guard wasn't expected to make the team and then sort of makes a run for it one spring training at 86 this submarining side wanding pitcher Mark icorn came out of the bullpen got
We went up a very grim and dark elevator. When we got to the courthouse level, we had to walk past some bullpens . And when we went past the bullpens , they were populated with a bunch of individuals who were awaiting trial who had just been arrested
Yeah, probably wasn't too pretty either. But he signed for 500 dollars. And 500 is what it took to get his big league career started. And he said, 'I would have signed for, for nothing.' So he went to the Angels system and he was told, 'You can't, you can't start games. You're basically here to catch in the bullpen .' So he didn't have a lot of time to develop as a catcher. So he went to winter ball where the same thing happened.
to defend the territorial rights as far as he can go. The reason it's so important to the Giants is because, if you look at their stadium signage, if you look at their season So I think they realize that to a degree it's a little unsustainable to go 14 and 3 in one run games and the bullpen can't pitch as well as it's pitched all year. The starters are