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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
Re: Melky/Sanchez...
Last thing I'll say on that topic is that it's easy to look back now and say they should have known something was wrong with Sanchez, or they should have evaluated and known Cabrera was going to continue to be good while Sanchez was never going to bounce back.
But... Sanchez cleared medical evals just fine (there's nothing structurally wrong with his shoulder/elbow/forearm)
Cabrera was an extreme risk factor. He'd just done something he'd never done before - hell, something he'd never come close to doing before - and few believed he would replicate his 2011 performance, let alone surpass it.
Both were high-risk, high-reward. The Giants just got the good end of it.
Re: Montgomery. That's interesting, considering the scouting info I just got about his velocity being back to old standards and his curve being much better. It's from a guy whose connection has long been a Monty backer, so it might be a little slanted.
He's still young and has plenty of time to harness that stuff IF it truly is back. Starting him at AA and giving him a chance to rebuild some confidence is probably a good thing, because he certainly wasn't getting it done in Omaha.
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If his stuff is truly back and he still continued to do poorly...they probably figured he might need some confidence building. I have no problem with the demotion.