Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
March 17, 2008
Lighting Up the Rotation

Redleg Nation is high on Edinson Volquez. It looks like the Reds will join a number of teams in starting the season with at least two very young pitchers in the rotation. They quote Dusty Baker on Volquez and Cueto:

"You want me to say it or are you going to say," Baker said. "They're pitching like they belong along side (Aaron) Harang and (Bronson) Arroyo in the rotation. They're dealing. They came in ready to pitch. They played Winter Ball so they're ahead, not so much with velocity but with command. That's what you need. They're pounding the strike zone. If you walk people, you have no chance. If you get behind people, you have little chance.

"We need them."

Doesn't Dusty want his pitchers to clog the bases with walks? :-)

All jokes aside, the Reds are looking like a team that can pitch. At some point they'll add Homer Baily as well, and by the end of the season my have the best 1-5 rotation in the National League.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:54 AM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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It's funny (sad) that Dusty believes that walks on offense are bad, yet walks by their pitchers is also bad. Can't he see the disconnect here?

Posted by: sabernar at March 17, 2008 09:38 AM

"by the end of the season my have the best 1-5 rotation in the National League."

BOLD!!

Posted by: D-Rock at March 17, 2008 03:03 PM

""by the end of the season my have the best 1-5 rotation in the National League."

Assuming Dusty doesn't destroy his new, young arms.

Posted by: the other josh at March 17, 2008 05:16 PM

"by the end of the season my have the best 1-5 rotation in the National League."

Assuming Josh Fogg and Volquez can take you from 15th in '07 to 1st in '08 - well maybe.

Posted by: Bandit at March 18, 2008 08:11 AM
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