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Dave_Gershman
I’m all about the Vin Mazzaro trade. A really good trade for the Royals.
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I’ve gotta agree with Fangraphs’ analysis that there’s nothing really exciting about Mazzaro. He doesn’t strike people out and doesn’t have particularly good command. He doesn’t induce ground balls particularly well or miss many bats… in 122 innings this year he was exactly replacement level.
I guess if Marks pans out, it could look OK, but the Royals probably could’ve done better than Mazzaro as the centerpiece. Even if his control moves back down toward his minor league levels, I don’t see much that separates him from a guy like Nick Blackburn. Throws strikes, doesn’t miss bats, doesn’t keep the ball on the ground very well.
Both throw their fastball about the same speed and same amount (60%-ish), Mazzaro just relies mostly on a slider and change from there while Blackburn distributes the rest of his pitches pretty evenly between a cutter, curve, and change. He also magically outperformed his peripherals for two seasons, which Vin has yet to do.
Mazzaro might be a passable placeholder until one of KC’s real pitching prospects comes along, but man could they have done better if they’d traded DDJ earlier rather than waiting till the deadline. Not really their fault, you can’t predict a freak injury like that. I still think they could’ve done better than this though, regardless. Moving to a smaller park with a worse defense behind him’s not going to help Vin’s cause any in KC. I’m betting he gets rocked pretty handily in 2011.
Dave_Gershman
Ill he honest, I’ve been commenting on this site for over a year now and you’ve always been one of my favorite and most reliable commenters — you are one of the smartest people here, I just really want you to give Mazzaro a chance because if you subtract his back to back starts against the Yankees, he had a fine sophomore season. I actually he will make great strides this season and develop in to a number 2 or 3 in the rotation simply because I think he has good upside shf knows how to pitch.
moonraker45
I’m not gunna buy in to the pre season hype about A’s just yet. . if success was predictable this early the mariners would have went to the 2010 world series.
LifeLongYankeeFan
Yes they’re interested in Jorge De La Rosa if they can’t sign Lee lol.
EL CABALLO 626
Boring Week so far, nothing will happen until December anyways