good dolphin wrote:
you cannot really project pen arms into the future unless they are learning to be starters or closers. It's a year to year proposition across the league.
I feel pretty good that I said before Sunday that "he is really good at protecting the pen" when he stands in front of it during the game.
8 teams in 11 years, always a high WHIP, best year on a bad Houston team and they let him go.
It's totally a case of coaches, GM, etc seeing this guy throw hard at 6'6" and they are going to be the one who makes the guy into a closer. There isn't a pitching coach around who doesnt think he is the one to change a guy, he sees that one thing that nobody else sees and in the end , the guy is just a buster with some great talent that can never put it together, but someone will always try.
He is the Kellen Davis of baseball!