Congrats go out to the D-Train, Dontrelle Willis, for becoming the first 20 game winner in Florida Marlins history. He becomes the first African-American pitcher to achieve the 20 win plateau since Dave Stewart in 1990.
D-Train officially cemented himself in Marlins lore. Thirty years from now, during a Marlins' telecast, there will be a trivia question in the bottom of the 4th inning. It'll go something like this:
Who was the first pitcher in Marlins history to win 20 games?
Answer: Dontrelle Willis- September 7th, 2005
Congrats D-Train. It's guys like you that are helping the Marlins build that little something called tradition.
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When Train was at 16 wins, I gave Cooch the option to pick him over or under 19 wins for the season. Cooch picked under. He has his reasons, though, because he had never put together a solid second half of the season in his whopping two years of major league service. ;)
Dontrelle showed signs of tiring the past two years, faltering after the all-star break - collapsing is more like it. Prior to that, Dontrelle only pitched about 275 innings in three years of minor league service from '00 to '03, topping out at 157 innings, so you can't blame me for picking the under - he was hardly a sure thing.
Ladies and gentlemen, you have just seen a demonstration of how to ruffle Cooch's feathers. ;)
Cooch just told me he's mad because after the All-Star break, he traded Dontrelle from his fantasy team for Curt Schilling.
heheh. how'd you know about the fantasy league trade???
:)
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