Mike Timlin  
Relief Pitcher | Retired or Inactive Players

Pitching
Timlin has to keep the ball down, especially against lefties, or he gets hit hard and often. The Retired or Inactive Players hope he can work on his control a little bit. Every once and a while one slips away from him and either ends up at the backstop or in the right field bleachers. Sometimes I wish he'd just give up on throwing the changeup, it's like a BP ball! Timlin has had a tendency to fall victim to big innings. He frequently leaves fastballs up in the strike zone, where they get pounded. Dating back to his days in the minors, Timlin has been more effective against righthanders than lefthanders.

Defense & Hitting
He's reasonably quick to the plate but needs to vary his pickoff moves. Good baserunners appeared to time him last year. Timlin is nothing special in the field. Timlin is a surpisingly good hitting pitcher. And I'm not sure you can say this about a pitcher, but Timlin has some pop in his swing. Interesting sidenote, The Retired or Inactive Players have been known to use Timlin as a pinch-runner on occasion.

          -- Moostard Nyman
 

 

Year Team AS EN CO HR GF vL Hm Sc CL FB CU SI SL CB SC KN Age Exp Delivery Slot CH PH SP FA Nyman Rating
1998 TOR 79 37 57 75 56 44 50 44 48 38 47 45 75 0 0 0 30 7 Overhand Active 0 6 17 49 307
1999 TOR 83 37 57 75 56 44 50 44 48 38 47 45 75 0 0 0 31 8 Overhand AA/AAA 0 0 0 49 313
2000 TOR 82 39 57 75 56 44 50 44 48 38 47 45 75 0 0 0 32 9 Overhand Active 0 0 0 49 311
2001 TOR 82 38 57 75 56 44 50 44 48 38 47 45 76 0 0 0 33 10 Overhand Active 0 0 0 49 310
2002 TOR 81 40 57 75 56 44 50 44 48 38 47 45 76 0 0 0 34 11 Overhand AA/AAA 0 0 0 49 308
2003 TOR 85 39 57 74 56 44 50 44 48 38 47 45 76 0 0 0 35 12 Overhand AA/AAA 0 0 0 49 313
2004 TOR 84 39 57 75 56 44 50 44 48 38 47 45 76 0 0 0 36 13 Overhand AA/AAA 0 0 0 48 311
2005 TOR 83 41 57 74 56 44 50 44 48 38 47 45 76 0 0 0 37 14 Overhand Active 0 0 0 47 308
2006 TOR 84 40 57 74 56 44 50 44 48 38 47 45 76 0 0 0 38 15 Overhand AA/AAA 0 0 0 46 308
2007 FA 81 39 55 73 56 44 50 44 48 38 47 45 76 0 0 0 39 16 Overhand Free Agent 0 0 0 45 297
Ratings Delta   -3 -1 -2 -1                         +1 +1           -1 -11
History generated by Biorhythm v2.6.86 on Sun Nov 14 13:28:08 EST 2004

Data printed in red denotes that player was in the top two percent for that category and year. Blue data denotes membership to the bottom two percent.