[Astros.Com] Astros recall right-hander Sampson, send down Taylor Buchholtz

Just a matter of time before Backe gets moved to the pen, and Hirsh is given the opportunity to stay in this rotation for years to come.

 

I seriously do not understand all this "bring up Hirsh" talk when it was clear that his shoulder was hurting and they were going to be working him *less*, not more. Don't Major Leaguers typically go down to the minors to do rehab work, and not vice-versa?

Am I the only one that remembers this? Have I taken leave of my senses?

 

bringin up another bum....astros speciality

 

He has been pitching GREAT at RR, and as far as I know...zero restrictions.

DD

 

He just threw 7 innings on Thursday... I think they were resting him a little around the ASB, but if he's good enough to throw 7 innings in the minors, he shouldn't be restricted all that much in the big leagues.

 

Not only that, but a Mets fan troll nonetheless... there isn't a worse kind.

 

The Astros weren't just playing it coy when they said they weren't considering calling up Jason Hirsh from Triple-A. The right-hander exited his start on Monday after five innings with shoulder tenderness, and it appears he'll carry a light load for his next few starts as well.

Hirsh, who was the starting pitcher for the USA team during last week's Futures Game in Pittsburgh, has pitched 115 1/3 innings this year, so he has yet to come near his career high of 172 1/3 from a year ago. But the Astros are going to be cautious with their top pitching prospect and go easy on him for the foreseeable future.

"We'll watch and decrease his workload for a period of time," Purpura said.

http://houston.astros.mlb.com/NASAp...t_id=1563220&vkey=news_hou&fext=.jsp&c_id=hou

The article was dated the 19th; even if he's recovered since then I'd still imagine the team's not in any hurry to rush him up here unless he's a September callup.

 

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They should send Lane back too, and bring Nieve back up. Don't we have any hitter prospects in the minors? Maybe the Astros will bench Wilson when Ensberg's back.

 

All this talk about Jason Hirsh, people forget the kind of year Sampson is having, he has been just as brilliant in AAA as Hirsh, and he came up to the Astros and pitched a shutout.

 

I called it, I love Sampson. I hate to see Taylor go but this is serious now and there is no place for personal feelings.

 

Cant base it off one start but Sampson didnt look like a bum in that start.

 

How can you call Sampson a bum?

 

he also shouldn't be throwing 7 innings period in the minors this late in the season. he's is getting overworked elarton-style.

 

Elarton was overworked because he pitched nearly everyday (in high pressure situations) as our 6th-7th inning (and sometime 8th inning) guy in the Dierker regime. This was after he had been brought up thru the minors solely as a starting pitcher, with an arm conditioned that way (notice how the club didn't let Dierker make the same mistake with Oswalt... the front office got him in the rotation before he became Larry's pet-bullpen guy... which may have happened had the club not been so desperate for starting pitching in 2001).

Hirsh, as a starter, only pitches evey 5th day... and he's been conditioned to do this since A ball. He had a couple of starts this year where he was throwing 130 pitches... THAT is overworking a minor league guy (and they subequently realized it was stupid for him to be extending that much, so they informed Moore to ease up).

If he was up in the big leagues now, and being used as a set-up guy (kinda like how the Cardinals are WASTING Wainwright), he would most definitely be set-up for an Elarton-like burnout... but having him throw ~100 pitches (or 7 innings) as a starter is about where he should be in his development as a 24 year old in AAA on the cusp of being in the majors.

 

i guess...it's just alarming to me to see somebody this good and this polished at the AAA level getting run out there for that many meaningless innings. http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/app/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=l_pit&lid=112

i don't keep up with minor league stats extremely closely year in and year out, but I am guessing almost nobody who has performed like this in AAA for this stretch of time wouldn't have been called up already. hell, being able to reach double digit wins without having been called up by now seems ridiculous to me.

all that said, like you said, i also don't want to see him coming out of the bullpen and risking ****ing up his career by exiting his comfort zone. i guess albers and sampson are getting their shot at the starting rotation now, so i guess we'll watch purpura coddle who would probably be his 3rd best pitcher on the current staff for another 50+ wasted innings in round rock.