Dan Winkler scares the hell out of me and it’s got nothing to do with his uncanny resemblance to Kevin Pickford. No, not the former Padres southpaw, I’m talking about the character played by Shawn Andrews in Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused. It isn’t Winkler’s physical appearance that has me rattled, it’s that what I see in the box score when he pitches is not alright, alright, alright.
Namely, dude is walking a lot of batters and surrendering way too much hard contact. He managed to record a hold Monday night by facing the minimum number of batters in his inning of work, but the double play that got him out of it was only an option because he’d walked the leadoff batter.