The Soxaholix ask, what’s up with Pedro and his homers this year, which made me think of an old Rany Jazayerli article in Baseball Prospectus on pitchers who’d given up more homers than walks… The article specifically mentions Schilling, but also notes how Robin Roberts, the all-time HR server, relied on his control to get himself into the HOF. So, as advanced here as in other places, maybe Pedro really is on his way to becoming a control pitcher, refusing to walk people but paying occasionally by surrendering (hopefully solo) shots. Having said that, the fastballs were in the 90s yesterday…
And yes, the title of this blog entry is just the names of the 1-2-3 tracks of Janet Jackson’s “Nasty” album. See, you can mention Janet and sports without talking about her wardrobe malfunction. Oh wait, I just talked about it. Dang.