Video of Aumont from yesterday

Aumont, Phillippe

You can check it out here. The angle isn’t really the best, and its only a few pitches interspersed with the interview (and for English being his second language, he’s picked it up well), but he appears to have removed most of the “hitch” in his delivery. Obviously the results speak for themselves, but I gotta say, I’m extremely encouraged by the early returns. At the time I wrote my Top 30, I was under the impression that Aumont would be used in relief, just as he was with Seattle, and only after my list went to publication was it announced that he was being moved back to the rotation and his mechanics would be cleaned up. Knowing that, I’d have ranked him probably 5th in the system behind Brown, Gillies, May, and Santana, and right ahead of Gose.

15 thoughts on “Video of Aumont from yesterday”

  2. I think that the end of the year will give us:

    1. Cosart
    2. May
    3. Aumont

    Not a bad situation or slight to any of them.

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  3. It’s interesting that the Mariners tried to alter his release point to an over the top motion. Should be interesting to see how he does going back to his old 3/4 arm slot. I’m legitimately excited about our pitching depth right now.

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  5. …And J C Ramirez has been showing well at High A Clearwater.

    With Gillies on his way back to himself of last season, the trade looks better now and could yield 3 players for the big club in the next 2-3 seasons.

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  7. I agree with NEPP. A question I’ve started pondering is whether the FO would part with any of those guys midseason if the rotation is faltering.

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  8. I’ve been wondering the same thing. It be a crying shame to waste the line up we have on bad starting pitching (bad pitching in general) I guess if Halladay could go out there every 3rd day we might be ok.

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  9. Phillippe Aumont is Philliping huge!

    I am so impressed with this guy. Do you know how hard it is to go, in two and a half years, from speaking no English at all to sounding almost like you were born here? I think we’re going to be happy with how things turn out with him (assuming he’s not in another Amaro trade, which is a very big assumption).

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  10. I live 15 min from Quebec (the province at least)…trust me, they have a very THICK accent typically. Phillippe sounds like he’s from Missouri…impressive to say the least.

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  11. My guess is that, Like many Montrealers, he took English in elementary and HS, and spoke it once in a blue moon to a tourist or other unusual situation, but did not practice much. It came out in the press that he had no English.That could be an exaggeration. Not belittling Aumont’s achievement in mastering conversational English. Just keeping it real.

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  13. Didn’t get to see him throw too many pitches in that clip, but I have to say the ball looks like it leaves his hand just as it gets on the hitter. He has what looks like a pretty low energy delivery also. I’d sure like to get a closer look at his mechanics, but I’d say that whatever they’ve done, he does seem to be throwing a lot easier than before.

    I’d dearly love to have Cliff Lee as the number two starter on the major league team. But I really like Gillies and Aumont may be better than he initially looked. Everyone made a big deal about Strasbourg throwing five no hit innings the next night. But almost nobody noticed Aumont one upping him.

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  14. Wait until the wedder warms up. I think this Phillippe might get unleashed. Then, look out! I’m rootin’ hard for the guy cause he comes from where I come from. Quebec. He’s lucky being a ballplayer. I’m a trapper. My fadder was a trapper and one day he didn’t come home. A week later an Indian woman came by, fed me and raised me. I went west to the Canadian Rockies to trap then when I was 16. Old Adam bear once tried to get me. And a wildcat. But I got them. But I got my foot caught in a trap. I was saved by my wife that I bought for one thousand dollars in gold. We live happily everafter now.

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  15. I joined the circus at age 6, learned how to turn myself inside out as a sideshow. Got stuck one time and now I have to talk out my butt.

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