10-07-2009, 01:59 PM
<!--quoteo(post=65822:date=Oct 7 2009, 12:53 PM:name=BT)-->QUOTE (BT @ Oct 7 2009, 12:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=65820:date=Oct 7 2009, 12:40 PM:name=rok)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rok @ Oct 7 2009, 12:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->There might be a team dumb enough (maybe the Cubs are) to sign him to a 3 year deal, and then we'd be left without an effective lefty in the pen. I don't understand why it's so difficult for this organization to develop a loogy who can actually get LH hitters out.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That's the thing though. You really don't develop a loogy, he becomes a loogy by default when he can't cut it as a starter or a closer. Grabow himself pretty much sucked until he was 29, and STILL doesn't really do better against lefties than he does against righties.
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That's sort of what I meant. You would assume the odds of a failed lefty SP becoming a serviceable loogy would be fairly good provided he has a good arm, but we can't seem to transition any of our young left-handed pitching talent into anything serviceable in the pen. And I'm still not sure where Marshall fits into all of this other than as a long man in the pen.
That's the thing though. You really don't develop a loogy, he becomes a loogy by default when he can't cut it as a starter or a closer. Grabow himself pretty much sucked until he was 29, and STILL doesn't really do better against lefties than he does against righties.
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That's sort of what I meant. You would assume the odds of a failed lefty SP becoming a serviceable loogy would be fairly good provided he has a good arm, but we can't seem to transition any of our young left-handed pitching talent into anything serviceable in the pen. And I'm still not sure where Marshall fits into all of this other than as a long man in the pen.