Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
April 17, 2005
Go For the Gustavo

Gustavo Chacin put up another great outing last night, limiting the Texas Rangers to two hits over eight innings as the young lefty runs his record to 3-0. I like this blurb on his page on FoxSports.com:

Gustavo Chacin improved to 3-0 by shutting out the Rangers for eight innings tonight. He gave up just two hits. Chacin, who spent four years in Double-A, isn't nearly this good, but the Blue Jays can hope he doesn't figure that out for a while longer. He gets the Yankees next.

The problem with the above quote is that Chacin has had success at every level of professional ball. It seems to me he spent so much time in AA because he was rushed to that level and needed time to develop. He's only 24, and it's perfectly reasonable for a pitcher to have a leap at that age. He's yet to have a bad start in the majors. He became unhittable last year, and it's carried over to this season.

He's neither a power pitcher nor an extreme ground ball pitcher. Neither Steve Carlton nor Tommy John, he fits best into the Tom Glavine bin of lefties. I'm sure the Blue Jays will be very happy with that.

Update: A reliable source tells me that Chacin developed a cutter last year, and since he's been nearly unbeatable.


Posted by David Pinto at 09:41 AM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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Pitching 8 shutout innings in Arlington is impressive. He's one of the reasons the Jays may have the best AL rotation this year. Though, all of his starts have been against different teams. That ERA might start to balloon once quality-hitting teams get enough looks at him...

Posted by: Jason at April 17, 2005 10:44 AM

In general, I remember Chacin's start against the Yankees last year, and all I recall thinking was: why can't the Yankees develop young talent like this? And given the Yanks' current offensive woes, they may not be much of a test for the young man right now.

Posted by: Jan at April 17, 2005 11:37 AM

why CAN'T the yanks develop good young talent?

why would they waste much time with that when they just want to trade prospects for all-stars anyway?

george don't want no chacins around.

he wants RJ and wright....

Posted by: lisa gray at April 17, 2005 12:21 PM
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