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Fair points, absolutely. But if the pitching coach in Dunedin is such a great pitching coach and been so helpful for Greene's development, doesn't make sense to keep Greene over there for at least half a season? Make sure he's learned everything he can over there before sending him to New Hampshire.

According to BIS batted ball data, Smoak has a lot of hard contact. Link The hitter who is almost an exact match for his batted ball quality? Jose Bautista. Troy Tulowitzki's very close as well. This year he's even beating Josh Donaldson: Blue Jays sorted by Hard%

The small amount of games he had at Dunedin weren't enough proof that he had mastered the level, imo. It matters less with pitchers though, so whatever I guess. It's interesting to see the steady approach they took earlier with guys like Sanchez and Synder now thrown out of the window.

Now I know you guys aren't serious, but this kid is another prematurely promoted one, and he still got plenty of weak contact even if he was unable to finish the hitters off. 11 groundballs, 2 popups, 4 flyballs and 0 line drives is an otherworldly batted ball profile. Doubt he's going to keep it up, but then I also doubt he'll keep up the 3/1 BB/K.

Now they just need to hire a pitching coach that can teach Hutch Arrieta's cutter? Something happens to Hutch when he's pitching from the stretch. Career bases empty: 56/215 BB/K, men on base: 59/117 BB/K (this is from before last night's game, FG hasn't updated yet). Not sure if it's only command or if there's a delivery issue that makes his stuff hittable, but this kind of thing leads to solid innings followed by huge implosions. This isn't purely bad luck (although it's probably one of the reasons). Don't follow FIP blindly and be a jerk to everyone who doesn't. Most pitchers who underperform their FIP will be gone from the majors before they do too much damage to their ballclub. Interestingly, old friend Esmil Rogers seems to be the very worst when you sort pitchers from recent years by FIP-ERA. Hutch comes in 7th out of 607 "qualified" pitchers.

Isn't like every state in Canada just a bunch of farms?

Relief corps still not good enough for Gibbons to have faith in them? Wow.

What do you guys think about Dewees? Hit well in Cape Cod, and just crushed (admittedly weak) college competition this year

Except that he struck out more than 30% of the batters he faced in his last (shortened) season. It's true that he didn't get many K's in his first two season.

It's also where extended spring training is, perhaps Smoral is just temporarily filling in and will return to extended spring or go to Lansing once Dunedin gets a replacement pitcher? I know Chris Hawkins played a couple of Dunedin games a few years back when he was just filling in out of extended spring, and back then Hawkins was an actual prospect. ()

I want a good K%, and a good GB% http://www.statcorner.com/pitch.php?id=656546 As you can see the only thing he's been good at so far is not walking hitters. You'd expect a guy with his stuff to K more than 16% of the batters he faces though. Hopefully he shakes off the rust.

Yeah it's a move that would make a lot of sense. Not knowing anything about his reflexes/first step means we don't know if he'll actually have good range over there though.

Is the Smith to 2B speculation on your part or was there a rumour somewhere? I think Smith's on the DL, btw.

I was just about to say, I'm totally hopping on.