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Man - will Staumont EVER learn to throw strikes?
I remember seeing him last spring and thinking "holy hell, this kid has some serious shit..." but he just could not command it. Minor league numbers seem to support that. That's some nearly historically bad walk rates.
But geez, if the guy could develop even average command, he'd be a friggen hammer in the back end. He can get that fastball anywhere he wants and has damn nice late movement. Nothing seismic, just that little late hitch that takes the ball off the barrel or over the bat.
You can see that hitters don't pick the ball up out of his hand so he must be disguising pitches nicely as well (though this time of day creates weird shadows at Busch that sometimes have the same effect). Nice enough breaking pitch.
The guy has a major league arsenal if he can command it at ALL.
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