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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Sunday, November 08, 2009
Well…the Axe skin contact ad is a good place to start.
Nothing seems to come easily for Andy Sonnanstine. His fastball barely tops 87 and he’s forced to get by on mixing pitches and superb control, which is not a way to earn the benefit of the doubt from fans or scouts. The fastball-throwing, strikeout machines are by far sexier and catch your eye easily, which is why players like Daniel Cabrera get chance after chance after chance, while players like Sonnanstine have to force their way onto the scene. I know the term has garnered a very negative connotation among the sabremetric community, but pitchers like Andy Sonnanstine and Brian Bannister are real “scrappy” pitchers…and I don’t mean that as a bad thing in this case.
...A finesse pitcher, Sonnanstine saw his BB/9 rate skyrocket this past year, going from 1.72 to 3.07. He was unlucky (13.9% FB/HR; 58.4% LOB; .336 BABIP), but he still was far from the pitcher that we saw in 2008. Now, with Jeff Niemann and David Price firmly entrenched in the rotation and Wade Davis poised to take over the 5th spot, we’re left with the question: what to do with Sonny?
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1. Mike EmeighApart from my standard comment that people shouldn't be using "unlucky" in this context, the very real issue here is that the league seems to have caught up to Sonnanstine and that he doesn't have enough in his repertoire to make up for that.
-- MWE
..and I'm sure the M's will be glad to toss back Carlos Silva: they might even pay half his salary.
Jeremy Hellickson will be in that discussion. Maybe Mitch Talbot, also. The Rays are not short of starting pitching options.
-- MWE
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