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| Francona talks about the Daisuke setback | 03.13.10 at 4:58 pm ET |
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Following the Red Sox’ 3-2 win over the Pirates, Saturday at City of Palms Park (which was ended with a 6-4-2-4 triple play) manager Terry Francona addressed the the situation regarding Daisuke Matsuzaka.
Matsuzaka was supposed to throw live batting practice for the first time this spring training, Saturday morning, but had to cancel the session when he felt a stiff neck after throwing five pitches in the bullpen. Here is what Francona had to say on the matter:
- What happened? “He threw about five or six pitches and his trap or neck started spasm on him. He talked to John Farrell with Masa [Hoshino] there and decided to shut it down. We’ll go kind of day to day on it. I know he came and got worked on. We’ll wait and see how he shows up tomorrow and when he feels good we’ll repeat how he feels today.”
- He hasn’t had any issues with this before.
- Will you be more conservative? “I don’t think it’s anything besides kind of a stiff neck. I don’t know if we need to be conservative along as he’s OK. But if he’s not comfortable that wouldn’t be a good thing so we’ll see where it goes away.”
- Does this definitely rule him out to be on the team on Opening Day? “I don’t think Opening Day was the end-all, be-all. We just want to get him ready. I don’t think that’s the biggest decision right now. We just want to get him out on the mound and get him going so we can get him stretched out.”
- Show again you can’t have too much pitching? “Things have a way of taking care of themselves, and if they don’t — I’m not trying to sound unfeeling but I would rather somebody be aggravated than not have enough pitching. We’ve sat down and kind of explained that to the guys how it normally works and sometimes you need to be patience. At the same time if you don’t have enough pitching it doesn’t work. On the good side of it is when something like this happens I don’t think we have to panic and run a guy out there when you’re not supposed to because that doesn’t help anybody.”
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March 14th, 2010 at 8:07 am
I cant stand this guy, there is always an issue with him. He loves to spin things to save face in Japan this guy is not worth the headaches. Yeah he’s got good stuff doesnt know how to use it he’s a slightly beter than average pitcher.