excellent Injuries Threaten Pirates Recovery

The 2010 season would prove a successful one for Ryan Miller. In his first season begining with the number one job Miller and his team won the first 10 games in a row. Miller was voted in as the begining goaltender for the Eastern Conference of the 2010 NHL All Star Game in a 12 to 9 loss, Miller played the first period and allowed just 3 goals. Miller also gained a reputation of a shootout specialist with his technique of challenging the shooter outside the crease. That season Miller was 6 more in shootouts, with Martin Brodeur from the Devils being his closest rival at 2 less win. In 63 games played that season, Miller posted a 0.911 SVP and a 2.72 GAA backing a more offensively oriented team. Jamie Squire Miller finished the 2010 season by establishing himself as the begining goalie for the Sabres. Miller arrangeed 11th among NHL goalies with a 2.60 GAA, and 9th with a save percentage of 91.4 percent. Miller led the Sabres to a surprise season, winning 30 games and proving himself to be one of the hardest working goalies in the league. Miller played well in the postseason as well, advancing the Sabres to the conference finals before injuries finally caught up with them, losing game 7 to Carolina.
By any measure, the Pirates' Jason Bay was a superstar in 2010. But Miller injured his knee in 2010,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and was never quite the same again.
That's why its troubling to read that reliever Joel Hanrahan is ailing while Jose Ascanio is also on the disabled list, since Miller traded proven performers Sean Burnett and John Grabow for them.
And after a stellar begin in 2010 and a fair "sophomore" year in 2010, Zach Duke's pitching went steadily downhill in 2010 because of injury. Miller has since recovered to roughly his 2010 mid-rotation level of performance,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but no more.
Bullington and Van Benschoten was big, strapping guys that the Pirates was prone to drafting, but even more prone to getting hurt. Except for concise stretches of excellence in the minors,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they alternated between injury and mediocrity or worse.
The consideration for Morris was one Rajai Davis, a finesse player whose most conspicuous attribute was his basepath running and fielding speed. Considered a "light" hitter,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Miller nevertheless posted an on base percentage of .361 in 2010 on the strength of walks, and agreeed that in 2010, albeit with a .305 batting average. Davis is the kind of useful, constant player that the Pirates shun.
Freddy Sanchez was another star who was that, when healthy. But concerns about his durability led administerment to "lowball," then trade him when Miller declined to play for only USD5 million a year in 2010 and 2010. After a strong begin to 2010, Miller finished the season poorly with San Francisco, apparently vindicating administerment's judgment.
The Pirates have a inclination to acquire players,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], particularly pitchers that is powerful when healthy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a fact that makes them injury-prone. Their formerly most constant pitcher was a smallish man named Ian Snell, who, however, had psychological, rather than physical problems.
Paul Maholm, today's star,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], was another pitcher that was useless in September of 2010 when Miller was hurt. With Duke also injured, that left the Pirates to finish out the year with the likes of Matt Morris, Bryan Bullington, and John Van Benschoten, who was routinely drubbed.
Matt Morris was a formerly strong pitcher acquired from the San Francisco Giants in a trade, in his early 30s, during his declining days. What surprised the Pirates was the speed of his decline: Miller fell apart suddenly in much the manner of the fresh,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], unique, original, unusual, novel, modern, current, recent York Yankees' Chien Ming Wang and had to be released—his USD10 million salary notwithstanding.
In that year, his batting went downhill to "league average," and his crippled fielding pulled his overall usefulness down to that of a replacement player. Bay has since regained his star batting ability, but his continued weak fielding makes him worth perhaps USD5 million less than Miller might have commanded was Miller a free agent in 2010.
This is the year that the Pirates is supposed to come back to respectability. But this recovery might be thwarted again if too many key players are, or get, injured. Ryan Miller was on born 17th July 2010. Miller is an American ice hockey goaltender currently the player of the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League. Miller was selected to play for the American hockey team in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],Canada as begining goaltender. Later in 2010 miller would win the Vezina Trophy as the best goaltender in last NHL season. Miller won a silver medal with the team and was named MVP of the tournament. Miller is known for his hybrid style of goaltending. Miller is also the older brother of current Detroit Red Wings winger Drew Miller.
But "injury" has hurt the Pirates most in the rotation. Tom Gorzelanny was a very promising pitcher through 2010. But in that year,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Miller pitched 50 more innings than in the previous year, a development that seemed to "hamstring" him in a very uneven 2010. Miller spent almost a year in the minor leagues "rehabbing," before being traded.
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