Look Out the Reds are Coming! Horfin's Monday (I'm a Homer)

[JohnnyMapleLeaf]

Not comparing the two players AT ALL. Just saying that success at the highest level doesn't always have to be achieved at an early age, or on the first try. In other words that some guys aren't born with the natural ability, but work their asses off to get where they wanna go and eventually get there.

Seriously, look around at some of the players in MLB (ALOT of pitchers) that were complete busts when brought up to the majors, ended up bouncing around from team to team, maybe back to the minors a few times, and then turned into a pretty good player/pitcher after some experience and coaching.

JML can correct me if I'm wrong here, but if I remember correctly Roy Halladay sucked pretty bad in his first stint in the majors, went back to SINGLE A, worked on his mechanics and came back up thru the system. That turned out pretty well.

There are so many examples, and each one an entirely different situation, but my only point was that to say a guy will always suck just because he didn't succeed on his first try or two, or because he's already 27 years old makes no sense.

Yeah...Halladay had a no-hitter into 9 innings in his first ever start I believe, then got busted up huge later that year....back down to A ball...then onto his Cy Young.

Good points stif...and I totally agree.....but Howard was a cant miss from early on. But yeah....is there a better story than a guy that finally breaks though at a later stage to become a good MLB player. Wicked ****. The Jays example would be Reed Johnson....everyone had him pegged as a minor leaguer slash platooner, then he made it to being a great regular player. Love that stuff, stif!