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Post by batman66 on Sept 29, 2023 11:50:31 GMT -5
I was a big believer in Hernandez , but that clock is ticking , he's no longer the 16 year old , he will be 20 in a couple of months and struggling in low A ball and they have multiple infield prospects passing him by so I'm not sure what to do with him. I think evenetually he figures it out , but now he has Shaw, Triantos, Rojas, Valdez, ahead of him Cristian Hernandez is my Bellinger in the Cubs org. I get it , to me he was going to be the anchor of a future core at one point but that point is now way back in the rear view mirror with him being passed like an old lady driving 35 on the expressway. He really needs to show a lot more progress next season , that's if he's still in the organization. Rojas might have made Hernandez an expendable part and they are also supposedly signing next years #1 IFA talent Fernando Cruz who is hyped just as much or more than Hernandez was and he's only 15
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Post by bryzzobrist on Sept 29, 2023 12:13:19 GMT -5
LOL at his teammates ignoring him after his no hitter. Twas a funny.
Yamamoto became the first NPB pitcher ever with no hitters in back to back seasons
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Post by cfin on Sept 29, 2023 13:03:12 GMT -5
But the bigger key here is the 2025 rotation. The only locks for it right now are Steele and Taillon, that’s it. Two locks. We of course hope guys like Horton, Wicks, and Brown will continue to take steps forward and be part of that discussion, not to mention Assad and Wesneski, too. But we aren’t talking about a long term deal for a 35+ ace caliber arm right here, we are talking about a guy who just turned 25 in Yamamoto and *may be the best pitcher in NPB history. He can also be had for purely money, granted a lot of money. Sadly, while you don't necessarily like planning for it, you have to figure at least one, if not two or three, of those guys will have Tommy John or some other type of arm injury that will set them back a year or so. It sucks, because you don't know when that will happen. You may have a starting pitching surplus for several years and then bam, all of them go down with an arm injury the same season.
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Post by batman66 on Sept 29, 2023 13:11:04 GMT -5
But the bigger key here is the 2025 rotation. The only locks for it right now are Steele and Taillon, that’s it. Two locks. We of course hope guys like Horton, Wicks, and Brown will continue to take steps forward and be part of that discussion, not to mention Assad and Wesneski, too. But we aren’t talking about a long term deal for a 35+ ace caliber arm right here, we are talking about a guy who just turned 25 in Yamamoto and *may be the best pitcher in NPB history. He can also be had for purely money, granted a lot of money. Sadly, while you don't necessarily like planning for it, you have to figure at least one, if not two or three, of those guys will have Tommy John or some other type of arm injury that will set them back a year or so. It sucks, because you don't know when that will happen. You may have a starting pitching surplus for several years and then bam, all of them go down with an arm injury the same season. You can never have enough and you can't bank on anything more than the season you are in , and you can't even do that the way pitchers get injured these days. The Mets were supposed to have the homegrown rotation of the ages for years to come not so long ago , Harvey, Syndergaard, deGrom, Matz, Wheeler not one single one of them is still around with the Mets and none of them can get through a season without an IL stint or two and two mught be totally done already.
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