Post#4 » by Neddy » Thu May 2, 2013 5:47 am
i believe in effectively wild pitching of matt magill. i have been following up his progress from the minors for a couple of years now( really was tracking other prospects' stats at first but he caught my attention by accident) and i have been anticipating his arrival, although i feel it's a year or two too early.
lilly is done. he was clocking at times in low 80s with his fastball. granted he was never a fireballer, but don't remember him falling under 86 before. now 86 is his best. unfortunately he isn't hurt bad enough to get on DL......
i am afraid that beckett is also near the end. i can't picture him getting back into even 80% of his prime let alone hang on to his job until the end of his contract. i think zach will be the one to challenge for his job when september call up happens. sure hope we don't bring him up until then.
ryu has been as good as i thought he would be. i was catching chanho park's last professional season overseas with hanhwa eagles last year via internet and got to see ryu pitch before he was even coming up for the MLB posting. he was dominant then as he is now.
kershaw is kershaw. the flatout best pitcher in NL today. my condolences for his father.
greinke will be back sooner than originally reported. he has a plate on his non throwing clavicle, the bones have already fused by now. (not only because i am a health care professional, but speaking from having gone through 4 broken bones in 3 occasions.)
we also signed an emergency starter off the FA. we have thursdays off for the whole month except the last thursday of the month. and as i stated before, lilly is unfortunately still healthy, despite the early reports.
that will push us to go
kershaw-magill-ryu-beckett-lilly until caps return, then capuano will take over for lilly and keep magill at 2, then once greinke is back zach will take over magill's spot at 2. if caps is also **** things up and matt magill has performed well up to that point, i can see donny baseball keeping magill around for the 5th spot and move caps to pen, and designate lilly for assignment if he can't talk ted into retirement.
i would love to see our rotation to be this from mid june.
kershaw-greinke-ryu-beckett(ouch)-magill
then bring up lee next year to challenge beckett for the job
ehhhhh f it.
