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Quote of the Day: Buster Olney on Michael Pineda
by Craig Calcaterra @ Hardball Talk
Buster brings some serious truth to the Michael Pineda injury:
The explosion of social media has fueled the desire to identify incompetence, to illuminate failure, to expose the cheaters. Within seconds that news broke that Michael Pineda will miss the rest of the year with a labrum tear, Twitter was flooded with theories — that the New York Yankees blew it, that the Seattle Mariners knew that Pineda was hurt, that there were idiots and schemers … The Mariners didn’t cheat, the Yankees weren’t idiots. It just didn’t work out.
When bad things happen we often look for someone to blame. It makes it much easier to deal with bad news if we believe that it is the result of malfeasance. The scariest part of this world, however, is that the vast majority of bad things that happen … just happen. Often for no reason at all other than bad random chance.
Baseball player injuries obviously don’t compare to the real bad things, of course, but in their frustrating habit of just … happening, they are pretty similar.
List Of Top Young Pitchers Without Extensions
Ben Nicholson-Smith @ MLB Trade Rumors put together this great list of young pitchers who might be hitting the open market in the not-too-distant future.
MLB teams are working to keep their best pitchers off of the open market with contract extensions, and fewer elite arms are hitting free agency as a result of this emerging trend. In the past month alone, Matt Cain, Derek Holland, Jon Niese and Madison Bumgarner have signed long-term extensions that will postpone their free agency.
So who’s going to hit free agency? Fortunately for teams without pitching, some under-30 starters are not signed to long-term deals (minimum 2.5 wins above replacement in 2011 per FanGraphs). The list below includes pitchers who are going year to year through arbitration, and those who are headed for free agency this coming offseason:
Eligible For Free Agency After 2012
- Zack Greinke – 28 years old, 3.9 WAR in ’11, 7.057 years of MLB service through ’11
- Edwin Jackson – 28 years old, 3.8 WAR in ’11, 6.070 years of MLB service through ’11
- Cole Hamels – 28 years old, 5.0 WAR in ’11, 5.143 years of MLB service through ’11 (extension candidate)
- Brandon McCarthy – 28 years old, 4.7 WAR in ’11, 5.122 years of MLB service through ’11 (extension candidate)
- Anibal Sanchez – 28 years old, 3.8 WAR in ’11, 5.099 years of MLB service through ’11 (extension candidate)
Eligible For Free Agency After 2013
- Matt Garza – 28 years old, 5.0 WAR in ’11, 4.149 years of MLB service through ’11 (extension candidate)
Eligible For Free Agency After 2014
- Justin Masterson – 27 years old, 4.9 WAR in ’11, 3.108 years of MLB service through ’11 (extension candidate)
- Matt Harrison – 26 years old, 4.2 WAR in ’11, 3.083 years of MLB service through ’11
- Max Scherzer – 27 years old, 2.8 WAR in ’11, 3.079 years of MLB service through ’11 (extension candidate)
Eligible For Free Agency After 2015
- Rick Porcello – 23 years old, 2.7 WAR in ’11, 2.170 years of MLB service through ’11
- David Price – 26 years old, 4.7 WAR in ’11, 2.164 years of MLB service through ’11
- Jordan Zimmermann -- 25 years old, 3.4 WAR in ’11, 2.154 years of MLB service through ’11 (extension candidate)
- Ian Kennedy – 27 years old, 5.0 WAR in ’11, 2.124 years of MLB service through ’11 (extension candidate)
- Mat Latos – 24 years old, 3.2 WAR in ’11, 2.079 years of MLB service through ’11
- Doug Fister – 28 years old, 5.5 WAR in ’11, 2.058 years of MLB service through ’11
- Philip Humber – 29 years old, 3.5 WAR in ’11, 2.000 years of MLB service through ’11
Eligible For Free Agency After 2016
- Daniel Hudson – 25 years old, 4.9 WAR in ’11, 1.117 years of MLB service through ’11 (extension candidate)
- Ivan Nova – 25 years old, 2.7 WAR in ’11, 1.035 years of MLB service through ’11
- Brandon Beachy – 25 years old, 2.8 WAR in ’11, 1.014 years of MLB service through ’11
- Michael Pineda – 23 years old, 3.4 WAR in ’11, 1.000 years of MLB service through ’11
Many of the pitchers above will eventually sign extensions that delay their arrival on the open market. For now, however, it remains possible that they’ll test free agency.
The Other Part Of The Pineda/Montero Trade
Jose Campos has surrendered just one hit in 11 innings this season.
by Ben Badler @ The Daily Dish
With one trade, the Mariners sent arguably the two best Latin American pitchers they’ve signed since Felix Hernandez to the Yankees in January.
It may end up being worth it, given Jesus Montero’s bat potential and some early concerns about Michael Pineda’s health, but losing righthander Jose Campos in the deal may end up stinging.
Pitching for low Class A Charleston tonight, Campos threw five no-hit innings, allowed one run (it was unearned, thanks to a couple of fielding errors in the first inning), walked two and struck out seven against Augusta.
It was a nice two-day stretch for Campos’ family in the series, as his cousin, Giants lefthander Edwin Escobar, had shut down Campos’ Charleston club the previous day, throwing six shutout innings with two hits, no walks and seven strikeouts.
While Escobar is an interesting 19-year-old southpaw with some pitchability, Campos is a potential frontline arm. Campos, a 19-year-old signed out of Venezuela three years ago, ranked as one of the Top 20 prospects in the 2010 Dominican Summer League and Venezuelan Summer League after a strong VSL season, then came as advertised last season when he ranked as the short-season Northwest League’s No. 3 prospect.
Campos has a power fastball that he can ramp up to the high-90s when he needs to, but he also throws it for strikes, backs it up with solid secondary stuff and has a big, durable 6-foot-4 frame.
Montero should help a Mariners offense that scored the fewest runs in baseball a year ago, but Campos has the potential to swing that deal in the Yankees‘ favor in a big, big way.
