Trade Sanchez

The San Francisco Giants need to trade Jonathan Sanchez, before it's too late.  What success the Giants have had this year has been largely due to the strength of their pitching staff.  Their anemic line-up will at some point necessitate a trade for a bigger bat, inevitably requiring them to give up a pitcher.  I think Sanchez has filthy stuff, when he can find the strike zone (no "Dirty Sanchez" jokes, please), but I believe he is ticking time-bomb, with the potential to follow the career path of Mark Prior.  

Examine the following pictures.

Both pitchers come through a similar impingement motion during their deliveries.  Mark Prior is a knuckle-head who refuses to do anything about his motion, which was at one time hailed as the most biomechanically perfect motion in the game.  His motion is/was obviously not the best in the game, but was his demise.  

There are, of course, anatomical variances from pitcher to pitcher, but from a biomechanical perspective, Sanchez worries me.  Matt Cain, for instance, avoids this impingement motion, and will probably have a much longer career, with fewer injuries.  Randy Johnson has a safer motion, and is currently pitching in his 60's (not actually true).  

So, I think Sanchez has a much smaller number of pitches left in his big-league arm than his age would indicate, and since baseball teams are often ignorant of such things (Prior is the perfect example), the Giants should be dangling him as trade-bait at every opportunity.

The End.

p.s.

Dodgers suck.