| Sheets on Sunday |
Thu, 12 July 2012 19:28  |
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Sheets tabbed to start on Sunday against Mets
By Teddy Cahill / MLB.com | 07/12/12 8:16 PM ET
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ATLANTA -- After watching Ben Sheets throw a bullpen session on Thursday at Turner Field, manager Fredi Gonzalez announced that the right-hander will start Sunday's series finale against the Mets.
Sheets will be making his first start in the Major Leagues since July 19, 2010, when he was a member of the Athletics. The four-time All-Star has since undergone Tommy John surgery (2010) and has missed two of the last three seasons because of injuries.
Sheets made two starts for Double-A Mississippi since the Braves signed him to a Minor League contract on July 1. In 10 2/3 innings he allowed 12 hits and seven runs (six earned). He struck out 10 and walked just one.
Sheets said that he felt good in his Minor League starts.
"I thought I threw the ball pretty well, to tell you the truth," Sheets said. "Mistakes got hit, like they will up here. Even when you're in midseason form, you make mistakes -- it's going to happen. You try to minimize them and make pitches around them."
Gonzalez said that Sheets will be on a pitch count on Sunday -- fewer than 100, possibly as few as the high 80s. Sheets threw 89 pitches in his final start at Mississippi, on July 9.
"With the off-day on Monday, we've got a lot of support behind him," Gonzalez said. "So if he goes out and gives us five innings the first time out, that's fine."
Whom Sheets replaces in the rotation has not yet been decided. Tim Hudson and Tommy Hanson will start the first two games of the Mets series, and Jair Jurrjens will start Tuesday's series opener against the Giants. Wednesday's starter will either be left-hander Mike Minor or right-hander Randall Delgado, with the other returning to the Minor Leagues.
Gonzalez has an idea who will remain in the rotation, but the Braves aren't ready to make the decision.
"We'll see how this weekend shapes up before we make that decision on who's going to go on Wednesday," Gonzalez said.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120712&content _id=34865050¬ebook_id=34865158&vkey=notebook_atl& amp;c_id=atl
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| Re: Sheets on Sunday |
Sat, 14 July 2012 13:23  |
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Basic open of pickem against Santana Sunday. Both big-time flyballers. To Sheets benefit, Bourn and Heyward, not sure who will play left.
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| Re: Sheets on Sunday |
Mon, 16 July 2012 23:19 |
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| LVKINGS wrote on Sat, 14 July 2012 19:12 |
ER- Not sure I follow. Core of the Braves line up is 15 for 89 career vs Santana. Throw on top of that the questionable conditioning of Sheets and I don't get how its his advantage unless your just implying the Braves have more power....
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I was pointing towards the defense behind Sheets. With big time fly ball guys just joining a team I always like to look at the outfielders behind them. Look at Jered Weaver, while he's an awesome pitcher, his outfield defense makes him that much better.
Surprisingly, Sheets threw 19 change-ups on Sunday. He's always pretty much gotten by with 2 pitches. Curve and fastball. He's always toyed with a change-up, but it's never been a plus pitch for him. More change-ups would actually make him more of a flyball pitcher I believe.
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| Re: Sheets on Sunday |
Sat, 21 July 2012 14:15 |
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I was watching Sheets off and on today. His velocity was mainly around 89-93. Once again he was throwing a lot of off-speed stuff. Pitching with that veteran Curt Schilling savvy, when he needed 92-93 he found it.
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| Re: Sheets on Sunday |
Thu, 09 August 2012 23:35 |
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Really good article on the comeback of Sheets. I was unaware of just how bad his elbow was...
Sheets silences doubters with improbable comeback
By Mark Bowman / MLB.com | 08/09/12 4:15 PM ET
PHILADELPHIA -- As Ben Sheets has experienced the early stages of an improbable and inspirational comeback, Dr. Keith Meister has proudly watched from afar with a genuine understanding of just how far the veteran pitcher has come since undergoing what was assumed to be a career-ending elbow surgery.
When Sheets visited Meister in Dallas two years ago, he was simply hoping the accomplished surgeon might provide him a chance to play catch and enjoy other similar athletic activities with his two young sons. Approximately 20 months earlier, Sheets had undergone a major surgical procedure to repair a torn flexor tendon in his right elbow.
That tendon, the ulnar collateral ligament and essentially every other element of Sheets' elbow looked like the remains of a bat destroyed by a Mariano Rivera cutter. It was unlike anything Meister had ever seen.
"I don't think anybody has, to be quite frank with you," Meister said. "It was just as bad as it gets. He had torn everything off. It was basically skin holding his elbow together on either side. It's one of things where you make an incision and you're looking inside the joint, and there's no muscle, there's no ligament and there is no tendon."
There was seemingly no chance Sheets would ever pitch again. This remained the overwhelming assumption until he signed a Minor League contract with the Braves in early July.
When a national television audience watches the Braves play the Mets on Sunday night, Sheets will be on the mound, attempting to add to the wonder of his comeback. Those same individuals who assumed they had seen the last of Sheets two years ago are now among those anxiously waiting to see whether he can spend the next two months playing a key role in Atlanta's push toward the playoffs.
"I don't even try to figure it out," Sheets said. "I'm just happy that I feel good today."
Through his first five starts for the Braves, Sheets has gone 4-1 with a 1.41 ERA. He has allowed one run or fewer in four of those starts, and has proven that he can be successful without complementing his patented curveball with the 95-mph fastball that was once in his arsenal. Not bad for a guy who spent the first three months of this season coaching his son's baseball team in Louisiana.
"We knew the odds were against anything like this for sure, but sometimes when you leave the operating room, you just have a good feeling," Meister said.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120809&content _id=36415484&vkey=news_atl&c_id=atl
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