San Francisco Giants paying close attention to Colorado Rockies pitcher Jamie Moyer – MLB News
The San Francisco Giants’ management is paying close attention to Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Jamie Moyer. Recently, during a Spring Training game, Moyer impressed Giants most hitters with his extraordinary pitching as he shut out their innings on two occasions.
Lately reports are coming that the Giants are preparing their hitters to face Moyer with confidence ahead of start of the Major League Baseball season. On the other hand, the Giants are also giving some important last minutes’ instructions to their one of the best pitchers Barry Zito to raise the bar with his performance and also do some research on Moyer’s late swings getting the idea to match the performance with his game.
“I asked Barry to watch Moyer not because of how he's doing, but to look at how he's doing it," pitching coach Dave Righetti said. "He needs to look at how relaxed (Moyer) is."
Later Zito said explaining different things about Moyer and his pitching style, “Moyer mixes his pitchers really well. He's always working just out of the zone and giving guys a different look. If all the pitches look the same coming out of my hand, just like in the case of Moyer or others, that's what can throw hitters' timing off,"
The Giants manager Bruce Bochy also believes that they needed an exceptional performance from Zito to finish top in their own division. He also said, “Just give us a chance to win. That's what we want.”
Jamie Moyer is a highly talented player and knows his level of game in the big League. His vast experienced in the League has given him this much confidence and star studded calibre. Before coming into the Rockies franchise, Moyer has played with Chicago Cubs along with Texas Rangers, St. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Seattle Mariners and Philadelphia Phillies. From over 20-year of career, Moyer is presently is the oldest player (49) in the League.
In the meanwhile, Barry Zito has 12-year of Major League experience playing only with Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants, is certainly needed more experience to equal the same kind of accuracy which Moyer possesses.
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