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Corporal Valdal

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Captain Adama FCL Blue Jays

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I thought Alvarado was just having a bad game, then I looked at his fangraphs page.

 

f***ing yikes, how this guy got high leverage situations is beyond me.

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I'd use him in innings 1 through 6 if it was me!

 

Those days are long over. Stop living in the past.

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Those days are long over. Stop living in the past.

 

They stretched him out in the summer camp. Those days were literally a month ago! How is it possible you can't consider what he would do as a starter. When he misses, he misses off the plate. He rarely leaves anything over the middle and he has 3 good pitches!

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They stretched him out in the summer camp. Those days were literally a month ago! How is it possible you can't consider what he would do as a starter. When he misses, he misses off the plate. He rarely leaves anything over the middle and he has 3 good pitches!

 

I don’t doubt he could start and be a decent back end option. I question his ability to stay healthy and wonder if its worth streching him out to be a decent 4th or 5th when he can be a dominant reliever right now. The worst fear would be streching him out and he blows his elbow out and we lose him for 12-18 months again. The rotation spot he wants isn’t currently available and will only get more jammed up over time. Hes a reliever now and a good one.

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I don’t doubt he could start and be a decent back end option. I question his ability to stay healthy and wonder if its worth streching him out to be a decent 4th or 5th when he can be a dominant reliever right now. The worst fear would be streching him out and he blows his elbow out and we lose him for 12-18 months again. The rotation spot he wants isn’t currently available and will only get more jammed up over time. Hes a reliever now and a good one.

 

He had bone spurs that they didn't find right away last year and had a procedure to clean that up. 2016 to 2018 he was healthy and pitched progressively more innings each year.

 

When I see Borucki I see a lot more upside than a back end starter. He was pretty good in 2018 and he's a completely different pitcher now. His velocity is up a lot, he has a new cutter/slider and his change up was always a plus pitch. He may have gone from 1 plus pitch in 2018(his change up) to 3 plus pitchers..he could be a very good number 2.

 

Any pitcher is at risk of Tommy John every year. You have to maximize value. His ceiling isn't a number 5. It's much higher.

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