03-16-2010, 11:10 AM
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Waitin til next year
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Cincinnati
Posts: 9,610
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Re: should Chapman, Leake, Wood pitch out of the pen in 2010?
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Originally Posted by membengal
Off the top of my head, recent successful young pitchers who have not served time in long relief:
Lincecum, Cain, F. Hernandez, Cole Hamels, Verlander, Porcello, Billingsley, Kershaw, Jurrjens. And probably others, if I spent some time musing over it.
I think the Twins broke J. Santana in via long relief, and that obviously turned out much better than Liriano did.
I just don't know that there is a "best" way.
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I think the Twins broke Santana in via long relief because he was a rule V player.
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