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Q: I don't know how many days you spent in the Arizona Fall League, but can you give your observations of Davis, or just whoever you saw there?

JERRY MANUEL: I only stayed there for two days, so I can't say that I can give you an evaluation. But I did like the arm strength. Again, if I come in and say, Hey, the emphasis is on throwing strikes and you're a young pitcher, then that's one of the things that obviously you are going to have to prove me or prove to us that you can do.

I'm not interested in 98, 99; I'm interested in strike one and strike two. So with that being said, hopefully he can get his stuff together, because I understand he's got electric stuff. But that doesn't do any good if you're not throwing the strikes. You hate to -- again, we have to be patient with those types of arms and those types of situations, especially where we are now as an organization.

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An interesting interview.

I just hope that Jerry doesn’t think that Davis is a pitcher. Davis was the only prospect mentioned by name, but Jerry didn’t inform the interviewer about who exactly he was talking about, perhaps thinking Davis was someone else (possibly Mejia)…?

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Dec 8, 2009 11:25 PM EST reply actions  

Gotta be Mejia

Not too many guys in the AFL were throwing that hard, but Mejia was one of em.

"All energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet

What a fool I was to defy him"

-HST

by Mark Himmelstein on Dec 9, 2009 12:32 AM EST up reply actions  

Davis was a pitcher in college

maybe Jerry’s plan is to convert him back. Who needs a first baseman when we have the Irish Hammer

"[The Giants] beat us down. We were beat by a grown-man team, a team we want to be like one day. They came in here and took it to us. Out-manned us, out-gunned us. ... It wasn't even close." - Raheem Morris, 9/27/09

by cjmulrain on Dec 9, 2009 2:05 AM EST up reply actions  

He can throw 98, crush home runs...He's our own Babe Ruth.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Dec 9, 2009 1:19 PM EST up reply actions  

WTF does that mean, "where we are as an organization"?

Sounds like it means, ‘we have to be patient because we won’t be competitive until our farm system bears fruit’.

by SeanSchirmer on Dec 9, 2009 10:00 PM EST reply actions  

that means

“Omar and I f’ed up this organization that was 3 outs from a world series so bad in three short years that we have no idea what the hell we are going to do. "

Jerry and Omar assclowns for life

by Ghost of seven in a row on Dec 9, 2009 11:12 PM EST up reply actions  

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