In fairness, while I do agree he has a great arm, best arm in history is a huge overstatement. In the first case, Pat Burrell on 2nd is slow as molasses and the ball was VERY sharply hit to Francoeur. And in the 2nd case, the runner on 2nd had to stop to make sure the 1B didn't catch a liner right over his head.
Francoeur does have a great arm, but lots of RF make those throws.
Francoeur does have a great arm, but lots of RF make those throws.
Joe Morgan said (guess I need to use Morgan since no one believes my own opinion) he's never seen a runner get thrown out running on 3-2 to a ball hit to rightfield...I found that staement a little hard to believe...I'd still take his arm against anyone else...you cannot possibly have a better arm, one of equal abilty, I suppose so....I would bet his ball is clocked at a higher speed than any other ML outfielder.
great arm, but best I have ever seen (and I may be biased b/c I saw it live at a game) is Jose Guillen. Shortly after he joined Oak (like maybe his second game, but clearly the first time he let loose) a NYY with reasonable speed (don't remember who) should have scored easily from second but he came up gunning and got the ball there so quickly Ramon Hernandez didn't even try to apply a tag b/c he just assumed the there would be no play. Had Hernandez been paying attention the guy would have been easily out. Ball was probably never more than 8 or 10 feet off the ground. Impossible to describe how sick it was.
different play but
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ghNg4kGPemM
different play but
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ghNg4kGPemM
