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Originally Posted by Anyong Bluth
I posted this earlier, but thank you for bringing it up again in light of his name being discussed again.
Unless the organization has a pretty good idea on how to keep the bottom from falling out on his numbers after the ASB, I fear signing him.
He's exactly the kind of guy who they keep in the rotation and let him "pitch through it."
That gets more and more costly as we inch closer to Fall and down the stretch.
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See my post. I think if you dig more deeply, the picture doesn't look quite as described.
As far as lightening his load/keeping him fresh, he did seem to have August slides in 13 and 14. I'd suggest lightening the workload early as a way to keep him fresher there.
The other room for improvement may be in convincing him to throw his slider more frequently to lefties. He has become more FB/change past few years, and lefties have hit him better than they did when he used the slider more.