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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
2018 closer?
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God I hope not.
Because Matheny isn't clever enough to come up with an alternative if Alcantara actually succeeds. 5 years later he'll still be in the 9th throwing one pitch while everything he's learned has atrophied.
He'll go from a potential ace starter with a 3-4 pitch arsenal to a volatile back-end option who will need surgery in 4 years after Matheny wrecks him.
Rosenthal is a model of what NOT to do to an elite starting pitcher prospect. 98 mph fastball with life, arguably the best curveball in the organization and a developing changeup. We stick him in the bullpen, forget all about the fact that he wrecked shit as a starter and has the frame to carry 200 innings, let his secondary pitches atrophy in short bursts of work and then end up non-tendering him.
That kid could've been Syndergaard and we absolutely ruined him.
If they're going to put starting pitchers in the bullpen, at least let them fail as starters first. In other words, toss Wacha out there or even Wainwright. Do not bury kids with top of the rotation ceilings in the bullpen because they'll become Matheny's pet until he kills them.
He's ****ing Lennie and relief pitchers are his bunnies. "I shall love him and squeeze him and call him George..." and then the ****ing reeruned window licker squishes them to death. Again.
The organization's response? Nah, let's not replace him with someone that doesn't crush their little skulls...lets just get him more ****ing rabbits.
God this team is stupid.