Re: 2019 Pitching staff thread
Posted: April 29 19, 8:05 am
You’d think a pothead would be less angry
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redbirdjazzz wrote:That kind of [expletive] happens often enough in baseball that I find it amazing that no one's thought of putting a punching bag in the dugout or clubhouse yet.
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/guessing-th ... -pitchers/Guessing the Fate of April’s Underachieving Pitchers
by Dan Szymborski
May 3, 2019
Dakota Hudson, St. Louis Cardinals
I like his future, but I’m not crazy about his present. I thought the Cardinals got a little too excited about his 20-strikeout spring training. I don’t think the homers are a problem long-term, but I think the immediate issue is that he remains very much more a thrower than a pitcher. 40% of his fly balls allowed becoming homers isn’t something I worry about him sustaining, but what he does need improving on is actually punching out batters. No, not every pitcher is going to whiff 11 batters a game, and Hudson’s hard sinker is counted on to result in a lot of hits driven straight into the ground, but it’s hard to say a pitcher who has had trouble striking out minor league batters isn’t someone to worry about. John Gant’s the better pitcher right now.