Celestino looking like a Teoscar Hernandez starter kit with much better defense. Starting to get really excited about him.
If he keeps this up, he will shoot through to the top 100 list for next season. Dare I say, could get called up early and/or dealt for a bigger piece next year.
LHBs are harder to find and some people find them intrinsically more valuable than RHBs. It horrifies some people that a natural lefty would be brought up batting the inferior RHB way. With as much shifting goes on, it has become harder to be a LHB that pulls grounders so I am not sure how much prejudice there is currently for a lefty that bats right handed.
I always wanted to deal Martes and keep Musgrove. I never trusted Martes (or Singleton) . I don't like my 20 year old athletes to be fat. I'm ok with fat ballplayers in their 30's, but yeah, that's a bad sign when you are 19 or 20, never made any money in your life, have very little responsibility other than taking care of your body and learning your craft, and you show up looking like those 2 did. I should have been out on AJ Reed. He suckered me in. All 3 of them busted/look like busts right now. I'm sure there are counterpoints to this- but I just don't remember many guys with successful careers that came up looking fat. Fernando Valenzuela. That's about all I got
Just because a guy throws/writes with one hand does not necessarily mean he does/should bat that way. Depends on the eyes. No natural lefty hitter is being made to hit RH in this day and age.
On Bukauskas: Bukauskas has been sidelined since pitching two innings with Class A Quad Cities on April 24. The 21-year-old was involved in a car accident during Spring Training. The effects from the crash lingered, and he was eventually diagnosed with a slipped disk in his thoracic spine, he said, with nerve discomfort. The pain led him to believe it was initially an oblique issue. When an MRI dispelled that, it was off to rehab. "I'm feeling better," Bukauskas said. "I wouldn't say 100 percent yet. Anytime you have a back injury like that it kind of lingers. I felt better than I did my last outing. I think it's just going to be building on it and try and make progress as we go." https://www.milb.com/milb/news/hous...b-start/c-284990814?tcid=tw_article_284990814
Thanks for that tidbit. I've been wondering whats been going on all year for him. His year didn't make any sense other wise.
Just looked up some pictures of him from 2005. He also had some terrible hair and his earring game was embarassing as well. I'm not saying that this is always 100% predictive, but I feel most comfortable betting the under. You are correct though, he was definitely chunky early on. I'm sure there are others if anyone else wants to weigh in...
Read the article, there's some other good stuff in there. I was just glad to find out what exactly has been the problem, not nearly as worried.
Willy Collado looks like another interesting arm tucked away at QC. Turned 20 a few months ago and is striking people out at a healthy clip in the Midwest League, including 9 tonight in 3.1 innings. Can’t find much of anything written up about this guy.
Bartolo Colon, CC Sabathia, Joe Blanton, Carlos Zambrano, Livan Hernandez, Jaba Chamberlain, Vincinte Padilla, Heath Bell, just to name a few. That's just pitchers
