BP Scout not impressed with Smoral

[KingKat]

https://twitter.com/ZachMort/status/354637923347468288

[Angrioter]

I saw this yesterday

[Mikeleelop]

Hopefully he's just getting started. Still getting used to letting his arm/lower half lose

[KingKat]

Wasn't sure if it had been posted. Also, I can never remember the tag for embedding tweets.

[KingKat]

Hopefully he's just getting started. Still getting used to letting his arm/lower half lose

 

Yeah hopefully. The farm system is so barren right now, the team can hardly afford another bust.

[Nox]

The farm system is so barren right now, the team can hardly afford another bust.

 

Indeed. Perhaps this regime shouldn't have invested ~80% of their draft resources on pitching...

[ReturnOfTheYeti]

I saw this yesterday

 

I'd kind of give the guy a mulligan for the time being. He's only had 3 IP and he was off last year with the foot fracture. I'd give them the chance to work on his mechanics, delivery, strength, etc... before pronouncing him a bust. Just IMO.

[KingKat]

Indeed. Perhaps this regime shouldn't have invested ~80% of their draft resources on pitching...

 

And then taking that pool of pitching prospects and reducing it to just two guys by trading everyone not named Osuna or Sanchez. Talk about putting all your eggs in one basket and then punching a hole in the basket.

[Angrioter]

The strategy of drafting injured guys continues to not work too, I hope AA and Co. abandon that.

 

They're not getting great bargains to begin with (maybe a player falls half a round) and a lot of the pitchers they draft/acquire end up getting hurt again.

 

Stilson

Dyson

Smoral

Murphy

 

help me

[Angrioter]

there is still hope for Stilson

 

yeah, as a reliever but .................the relievers aren't impact players (Mo, Chapman, Kimbrel)

[Atothe]

This doesn't mean anything to me. He has barely pitched. Tell me a couple years you're not impressed with then it will mean something.

 

Exactly, how the hell can anyone be impressed with a 6-11 190 left handed pitcher who's been recovering from injuries. He is raw and needs hundreds of innings to fulfill his potential. His velocity will come especiallt if he goes on the delbar program.

[KingKat]

Mortimer retweeted this from one of his BP colleagues today:

 

 

Jays fans will also be happy to hear that Matt Smoral was better today. FB 90-93 topped out 94. Threw a couple nice back door sliders

 

 

[KingKat]

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Square brackets. That's the part I always get wrong.