He is also not "full throttle" max effort throwing at 100. Look at his delivery, it is controlled at that speed. He is not Rob Dibbling it to get that velocity.Originally Posted by RustyJ
He is also not "full throttle" max effort throwing at 100. Look at his delivery, it is controlled at that speed. He is not Rob Dibbling it to get that velocity.
Griffey012 (07-05-2018)
Jose Fernandez pitched in the 2012 Futures Game about 2 weeks before he turned 20 years old. Greene is over a full year younger than that.
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reds44 (07-05-2018)
Please keep Greene away from boats and alcohol.
I had forgotten about J. Fernandez this season until you brought it up. I seriously miss watching that guy pitch. He was so good.
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Old school 1983 (07-05-2018)
Yea it's really unfortunate that he was as irresponsible as he was.
The television crews left and about 10 reporters remained in the room. That's when Price took his turn doing the talking.
What followed was a five-minute, 34-second expletive-filled tirade. The final tally was 77 uses of the "F" word or a variant and 11 uses of a vulgar term for feces (two bovine, one equine).
I think he's the closest comp to Greene. Greene seems to have a much better head on his shoulders, too stay away from trouble anyway.
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What’s his earliest realistic ETA in Cincinnati? September 2020?
Cough, Cough, and Coke. Alchohol, Coke and a fast boat at night are recipe for disaster.
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Sea Ray (07-14-2018)
I’d say not being in Miami should help with that.
That’s what I would think. Start next year at High A and finish at Double A. Start 2020 in AAA and get the end of year callup would seem to be some form of the quickest imaginable path.
Joey Blotto (07-06-2018)
Yes I was thinking similar promotional milestones.
I’m curious to see how aggressive they are with stretching his innings out over the next couple years. What’s the general rule-of-thumb? +20 IPs per year? +30?
Has there been an announcement one way or another on whether he's going to stay in Dayton all year? Isn't now about the time for mid-season promotions?
I wouldn't be surprised either way but I haven't heard anything.
Probably not, no need to announce something you are not going to do, just in case you change your mind for one reason or another and have to do something different. I doubt they'd say if there was a plan to get him a few innings in High A if they so deemed because what if they get toward the end of the season and decide its best to keep him down, or even shut him down? I'm sure there are internal conversations about their plan that they share with Hunter and those in the Dragons front office, but nothing they would or even should announce publicly.
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2. Hunter Greene: So raw but so much fun to watch. His first 20-some pitches, and 45 of the first 46, were fastballs against us, so he wasn’t working on offspeed stuff that game — but when the fastballs were all 97-101, it was fun to watch the radar gun. He threw strikes — no walks, two hits, five Ks in four innings against us — and seems to have figured things out after a rough start. Will be fun to watch how he grows.2/3. Hunter Greene/MacKenzie Gore: Putting these two together because we saw them both pitch brief stints in April. Greene fared poorly while Gore did not make much of an impression. Then we saw them again on the current road trip, Greene for five innings and Gore for two, and it was clear that they’re each special pitchers. Greene’s breaking ball was the best outpitch I’ve seen this year, while Gore overpowered with his fastball.2. Hunter Greene: We’ve seen him three times now and I feel like he’s gotten better every time. When we saw him in April, he had the blazing fastball but not great command and was getting hit hard. By July, he was locating his fastball and using his breaking stuff a lot more. He was a guy with more of a full arsenal, rather than just a novelty flame thrower.3. Hunter Greene: Best arm to come through the Midwest League in the last 10 years. Has a long way to go, but you can’t teach 101 mph by a starter.
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
Does anybody know if the futures game is free tomorrow? Or am I going to have to subscribe?
Players are not told about any intentions to move them up until it is time to pack their bags. They don’t want them thinking about that stuff. Assume you are staying put. Dragons front office would not be told anything either. The team he is going to might be told slightly in advance, like a day, to get things in order with a host family or a hotel reservation, and to make arrangements to pick him up at the airport.
Doubt he goes anywhere this season. He is a long, long way away from anyone having any idea about a timetable for ETA in the bigs. He is a generational talent, yes, no doubt about it. He is not a generational player at this time. They hope he becomes that. His ability to learn and improve will dictate that, not any timetable someone might have. If he ends up spending two full years in Daytona, it would not necessarily mean he couldn’t become just as good a major leaguer as he could be if he only spent two months there. It would just mean it took a little longer than expected to get through that stage of the development process.
He has a lot to learn. Who knows how long it will take? We just know he has tools that are basically off the charts.
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