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Originally Posted by chaddurbin
ubaldo is a headcase. also his arm may've been ruined that one year when he had the great 1st half.
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I agree. Dude may never figure it out again. I think the problem with the first half he had the one year, is that he may be setting the bar too high for himself now because of it.. It's creating an even larger contrast mentally between his current struggles, and what he thinks he really is. Aside from a few kinks in his delivery, I think he has to learn to trust his defense, and not nibble so much. That and keep the ball in the park..
There's a few guys that I think are/were/will be, in similar boats, as far as constant nibbling, frustrations and then just flat out falling apart. You know, the ACE type guys who seem to rack up the strikeouts, but run up their pitch counts quickly and often struggle to get past 5 or 6 innings..
Scott Kazmir was very similar(although there were some minor injuries that played into it). Lincecum fell victim to it last year. I could realistically see a similar situation coming for gio gonzalez in the near future..