![]() Obviously he has limited experience and mileage he also was young for a college junior. Garcia wasn’t at the Pirates’ alternate training site, but he was in fall instructionals following the canceled season.Ģ021 A: 5-4-1, 4.22 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, 74.2 IP, 4.2 BB/9, 10.0 K/9 Garcia signed for well above the slot value of $780,400. Garcia spent the season at Bradenton, initially as a reliever and then as a starter. He made 13 starts and eight relief appearances in all. He didn’t show the kind of stuff he reportedly had when drafted, with his fastball mostly in the low-90s. He had some trouble with walks and a little with gopher balls. He had a lot of trouble with left-handed hitters, who posted an. Garcia also had a home/road split, with a. Garcia’s debut was neither great nor terrible. Austin Trout wasn’t available, huh? – Ceylon Hopefully his stuff will rebound in 2022.Sadam Ali. Well, not to be a smart ass in the face of your smart assery, but no, he wasn’t. He’s challenging Jarrett Hurd for the IBF 154-pound title tomorrow night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn (on Showtime – don’t tell me the PBC’s quality tripleheader has flown under your radar). The same card that hosts Hurd-Trout also includes the other two major junior middleweight beltholders – Erislandy Lara (who defends his WBA title against Terrell Gausha) and Jermell Charlo (who defends his WBC strap against Erickson Lubin), so, obviously, they weren’t available either. You know who else was unavailable (or just declined the offer), according to RingTV’s senior writer Mike Coppinger? Errol Spence Jr., Mikey Garcia, Danny Garcia and Lamont Peterson. Spence or Matthysse would have been badass matchups.)Īccording to Steve Kim, who sourced Golden Boy president Eric Gomez, James Kirkland and Lucas Matthysse were also offered the fight with the four-division titleholder from Puerto Rico and declined. There was also serious discussion (as you’re probably aware) of Cotto taking on the Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin winner or middleweight contender David Lemieux. 16 has pretty much guaranteed that the two 160-pound champs will engage in an immediate rematch next May, and Lemieux, though a bit raw technically speaking, is still too big and dangerous (without making for a mega-event and bringing in the amount of money that a Canelo or GGG matchup would). In other words, the reward was not worth the risk for Lemieux, who made it clear that he’s not going to agree to any catchweights for Cotto. I’m fine with Cotto not facing a middleweight standout. ![]() It’s perfectly clear to me that he’s not a real 160 pounder (despite his RING/WBC title victory over the aging, inactive and half-crippled Sergio Martinez in 2014).
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