Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
March 18, 2006
Royals Ace

Joe Posnanski makes a good case for Denny Bautista winning the #1 starter role with the Royals:

Bautista was electrifying on Friday. It was a meaningless spring-training game against the Milwaukee Brewers, but there was nothing meaningless about the way Bautista overwhelmed Brewers’ hitters. They were helpless. All spring training, Bautista had been showing off his incredible arm — he kept hitting 98 to 101 mph on the radar gun — and the Royals kept telling him to back off a little, harness his stuff.

Friday, he did. He threw easy.

“I don’t have to throw 100 mph anymore,” Bautista announced after the game, words that may have sounded familiar to Royals people since they had told him that about 3,483,028 times the last two years.

He points out that Denny is the Royals only real option.

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Posted by David Pinto at 01:09 PM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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