Spot on Brian. McLean continues to silence AAA bats and pitch like a star at Syracuse. Hard to believe he has not gotten a spot start. Interesting comment on Earl Weaver having young starters begin their careers in the pen. It’s not for all pitchers but 2-3 innings of McLean, Sproat, or long shot Tong might be far better than some of the cast of characters on the team and those fill-ins they keep finding before DFA’ing them.
Waiting now to see how gutsy Stearns will be with the retinkering of the team at the trade deadline. One more big bat and a front line starter makes this team much stronger. It will cost but that’s why they have built up their farm. system. In the meantime we have little reason not to believe “In Stearns we trust.”
We must understand that it’s a long season and undoubtedly Sproat and McLean will both be up by season’s end. With Holmes now a starter, it’s hard to expect him to last all year. Then, you have the sixth starter for the last three months, which they don’t have one now. Lastly, we must consider that Stearns may know something about a pitcher from his coaches and does not want to expose it in case he uses that pitcher to make a trade. Recall how great Christian Scott was until he came up and we saw that his stuff was mid to backend starter? You cannot say that an executive has earned your trust but then you question his moves.
+100 on this. I’ve felt they should have given any of them a shot by now. I couldn’t believe it last week when I read they’d signed Pop. What? Who? Also, off topic, but Jankowski just was replaced by Acuna. What? How does that make any sense? Possibly one of the IF are on the move but they could easily have made this transaction concurrent with any trade. That one is more of a head-scratcher than the reluctance to bring up the young aces-in-waiting.
Nolan McLean, 2.52 ERA, 60.2 IP, 65 K in AAA, should have started a MLB game in the last month. I don't agree with Stearns philosophy with rookie pitching prospects. I don't think Stearns really does either. Case in point: Rookie prospect, Blade Tidwell pitched started 2 games, came in in the 2nd inning in the bullpen game. McLean was better than Tidwell in AAA and earned a start.
Today pissed me off. We have a stud starting pitching prospect in AAA and in game two today, we used our dumpster pitchers and we got garbage. This loss is pinned on Stearns. He has a plan but I am not sure about his adaptability. We need better depth, especially in the bullpen. I hate giving games away. Game two was a loss before it started.
Looks like Sproat is pitching much better. Not sure on details. His ERA might be down from mid to high fives. These guys are giving up about one HR per nine. Not sure about pitch, velocity vulnerability to MLB hitters but a few dingers quickly might not be great on confidence. Besides, if they are trade bait why expose them? Keep it a mystery? Tong from AA to Corona Queens? Is he unhittable? What about putting Gilbert in LF at Syracuse and working on sacrifice bunting?
It's especially ironic since Stearns did exactly what your advocating for when he was in Milwaukee. Woodruff, Peralta, even Burnes I believe came up and worked out of the pen first before taking theor starting rotation spots
Spot on Brian. McLean continues to silence AAA bats and pitch like a star at Syracuse. Hard to believe he has not gotten a spot start. Interesting comment on Earl Weaver having young starters begin their careers in the pen. It’s not for all pitchers but 2-3 innings of McLean, Sproat, or long shot Tong might be far better than some of the cast of characters on the team and those fill-ins they keep finding before DFA’ing them.
Waiting now to see how gutsy Stearns will be with the retinkering of the team at the trade deadline. One more big bat and a front line starter makes this team much stronger. It will cost but that’s why they have built up their farm. system. In the meantime we have little reason not to believe “In Stearns we trust.”
With fingers crossed of course.
We must understand that it’s a long season and undoubtedly Sproat and McLean will both be up by season’s end. With Holmes now a starter, it’s hard to expect him to last all year. Then, you have the sixth starter for the last three months, which they don’t have one now. Lastly, we must consider that Stearns may know something about a pitcher from his coaches and does not want to expose it in case he uses that pitcher to make a trade. Recall how great Christian Scott was until he came up and we saw that his stuff was mid to backend starter? You cannot say that an executive has earned your trust but then you question his moves.
.aybe we see them after the all star break.
+100 on this. I’ve felt they should have given any of them a shot by now. I couldn’t believe it last week when I read they’d signed Pop. What? Who? Also, off topic, but Jankowski just was replaced by Acuna. What? How does that make any sense? Possibly one of the IF are on the move but they could easily have made this transaction concurrent with any trade. That one is more of a head-scratcher than the reluctance to bring up the young aces-in-waiting.
Nolan McLean, 2.52 ERA, 60.2 IP, 65 K in AAA, should have started a MLB game in the last month. I don't agree with Stearns philosophy with rookie pitching prospects. I don't think Stearns really does either. Case in point: Rookie prospect, Blade Tidwell pitched started 2 games, came in in the 2nd inning in the bullpen game. McLean was better than Tidwell in AAA and earned a start.
Today pissed me off. We have a stud starting pitching prospect in AAA and in game two today, we used our dumpster pitchers and we got garbage. This loss is pinned on Stearns. He has a plan but I am not sure about his adaptability. We need better depth, especially in the bullpen. I hate giving games away. Game two was a loss before it started.
Looks like Sproat is pitching much better. Not sure on details. His ERA might be down from mid to high fives. These guys are giving up about one HR per nine. Not sure about pitch, velocity vulnerability to MLB hitters but a few dingers quickly might not be great on confidence. Besides, if they are trade bait why expose them? Keep it a mystery? Tong from AA to Corona Queens? Is he unhittable? What about putting Gilbert in LF at Syracuse and working on sacrifice bunting?
It's especially ironic since Stearns did exactly what your advocating for when he was in Milwaukee. Woodruff, Peralta, even Burnes I believe came up and worked out of the pen first before taking theor starting rotation spots