...the 2-2 to Woodsen and here it comes...and it is swung on and missed! And Tom Browning has pitched a perfect game! Twenty-seven outs in a row, and he is being mobbed by his teammates, just to the thirdbase side of the mound.
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Like I said in the game thread, let him start until he proves he can't.
I think he can.
CySeymour (03-03-2021)
I was happy to see Greene too, but he looked miles away from being MLB-ready, starter or closer. I mean... they called the inning, he only went 2/3rds.
"Lemonade requires a significant amount of sugar. Otherwise, you've just made lemon juice."
This is the key and a great point.
IF Greene's on a strict innings limit, I could see him as a difference-making bullpen arm late in the season.
This depends, of course, on the location of his pitches and on at least one off-speed pitch developing enough to keep major league hitters honest.
Reds FB posted that it had been 950 days between Hunter Greene's last minor league appearance and his start last night.
"Today was the byproduct of us thinking we can come back from anything." - Joey Votto after blowing a 10-1 lead and holding on for the 12-11 win on 8/25/2010.
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David Bell: “No matter what the result was, it was going to be a good experience for Hunter Greene.”
“He’ll learn from it. Not the worst thing in the world the results aren’t how he wanted it to go.”
2019 6th-round pick graham ashcraft throws 100mph. should he be with the reds too? lol.
membengal (03-03-2021)
I thought Lodolo looked pretty good
Charlie Goldsmith @CharlieG__
My lasting takeaway from Hunter Greene’s game last night won’t even be the way Greene threw on the mound.
It’ll be the way he impressed David Bell and Tucker Barnhart. Those two have seen a lot of baseball, and Greene was a unique player to them.
Ryan Madson says hi.
Chapman was going to be a starter. The reds paid a free agent closer to replace Cordero and the new guy came up lame. They had a contending team with a surplus of starting pitching and no closer and Chapman's role changed. It was a need based decision.
Turning Hunter Greene into a closer for this team would be a really, really, really stupid thing to do. So, I pretty much expect that's exactly what this franchise will do.
"Even a bad day at the ballpark beats the snot out of most other good days. I'll take my scorecard and pencil and beer and hot dog and rage at the dips and cheer at the highs, but I'm not ever going to stop loving this game and this team and nobody will ever take that away from me." Roy Tucker October 2010
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Greene's start clearly wasn't what we hoped for. But it was his first start against real competition in about 2 1/2 years; he was throwing easy gas and he didn't get hurt (as far as we know.) I know fans shouldn't freak out by his outing which is to be expected but the Reds bear some blame for fans freaking out too. They started him against a major league lineup on a game in prime time that was nationally televised. How did they think fans would react if he did poorly? Maybe they should have started him in a B game out of the spotlight. Or maybe they should have started him against fellow minor leaguers.
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