If Garcia can give us 15 starts up to the trading deadline & win 6 or 7 or so games then he will have done his job as a stopgap solution. By then some big name pitcher should probably shake free in trades from teams that have fallen out of the playoff hunt. I think Cashman will make a move for a back end of the rotation guy at some point, I don't think we can rely on Ivan Nova to be the solution this year, though I hope I'm wrong.
Concerning AJ's run in with Dave Eiland, it was rumored that the altercation stemmed from a drinking problem that Dave Eiland had at the time that AJ called him out on in the clubhouse as a friend, I think Eiland supposedly took exception to it & that's when the altercation ensued. I don't think there is any bad blood between those 2 I've read stories that they were close friends. It was probably just 1 friend confronting another about his problem & that friend feeling overly defensive so he over-reacted. If AJ really wanted to beat Eiland down I'm pretty sure he probably could, but he took the punch as a friend. Sometimes you get into fisticuffs with people you care about & it blows over, I think this was 1 of those times.
Ahhh, right. I forgot that's what happened. I remember talking about it with you now..So what d'ya think happened to Eiland when he left the team 'for personal reasons'? Ya think they sent him to the farm/rehab? Usually you have to be gone for a month or more and Eiland was gone for awhile (I had an old buddy at my first pct. that they sent away to the farm for a little while with a drinking problem and he was gone for about a month or so it seemed)...Seems logical, no? I guess we'll never really know the whole deal..Eiland catch on with another team yet?