Friday, March 24, 2006

A lesson in critical reading

John Van Benschoten has hit another setback as he tried to pitch some BP and again failed yesterday, throwing only two pitches off the mound after a full warm-up session yesterday. While this isn't really that surprising at all, what is a bit of a surprise is as the second time in two days (the first being in yesterday's Duckworth column), Paul Meyer tosses in an off-handed comment that JVB could be put on the 60-day DL. I kind of missed it yesterday as it was buried in the column with a list of roster moves that could be made to make room for Ducky, should he make the rotation. Today, I read it and kind of did a double take. As far as I can recall, the team hasn't actually acknowledged that ANYthing is wrong with Van Benschoten other than the fact that he's a bit stiff from the surgery and the time off. Now all of a sudden, he's a candidate for the 60-day DL. Either I missed something, Paul Meyer is making stuff up, or maybe, just maybe, we've been mislead by the Pirates front office once again.