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BaseballWizard
If McCullers spends less than 20 days on option the rest of the season, he will get the service time back. This means he could still end up with the 140 days at the end of the 2015 season and be a solid super two candidate in two years.
Dock_Elvis
Chance they option him now for rest…then again to effectively shut him down for the season?
Jcdiaz89
man my Angels are a pathetic mess
Ray Ray
The McCullers situation is exactly why teams trade prospects for rentals. These young players are definitely dynamic, but on the whole they aren’t experienced enough to maintain their composure during pennant races, let alone the postseason. Sure you might occasionally find a Michael Wacha or a Yordano Ventura that pitches lights out in the postseason, but they are the exception not the rule.
Dock_Elvis
There’s also a difference between trading them away and overexposing them. Not being comfortable putting them out there in a pennant race is different than trading them.
McCullers will also be hitting an innings cap as well. They could just be resting him to use into Sept
Ray Ray
Scott Kazmir doesn’t have an “innings cap” (a ridiculous concept IMHO, but that’s another discussion) so it was smart to trade for him. These games in August count just as much as the games in late September. The most important ability of any player is availability. I’m not saying that McCullers or any other specific prospect should have been traded for a veteran. I was just saying that it is understandable why vets replace them in late season rotations.
Dock_Elvis
An innings cap might be kind of ridiculous, as it doesn’t relate to pitches thrown…but a cap of some reasonableness is fairly smart.
Oh..absolutely smart for a team like Houston right now to have about 6 starters available. They got to competitiveness sooner than expected… That’s how McCullers got to the big leagues in the first place…a normal projection of them just trying for .500 has him making an appearance in June possibly and normally shut down at 150 innings or wherever they’d want him at. Nice problem to have.