Blue Jays - Optioned Bush
Toronto Blue Jays - Optioned P Dave Bush to Syracuse; recalled P Chad Gaudin.
Bush’s peripherals are rather disappointing, but I’d have rather them stuck with him a bit longer. From a practical standpoint, that would have been very difficult - Towers’ control has been simply unreal this year and while Ted Lilly’s been horrific, it’s a stickier situation getting rid of him due to his service time and the fact that he’s finally coming off a few really good starts.
Plus, I rather like Chad Gaudin better than David Bush long-term. I still think that Bush is capable of giving a team a bunch of league-average season. A team that’s really hard up for starters at the moment (A’s, Dodgers) could do a lot worse than pick him up and put him the 4 or 5 slot. Gaudin will be starting and is a pretty good bet to beat his projection, I feel
2005 ZiPS Projection - David Bush
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Period W L G GS IP H ER HR BB SO ERA
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Actual ‘05 0 5 10 10 53 59 29 10 10 26 4.89
Rest ‘05 5 6 22 22 124 131 59 16 26 86 4.28
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Total ‘05 5 11 32 32 177 190 88 26 36 112 4.47
2005 ZiPS Projection - Chad Gaudin
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Period W L G GS IP H ER HR BB SO ERA
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Actual ‘05* 3 2 10 10 63 65 28 7 15 44 4.00
Rest ‘05 3 4 25 14 97 99 49 11 34 73 4.55
* - Includes MLE
Dan Szymborski
Posted: May 30, 2005 at 12:37 PM |
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1. The Bones McCoy of THT Posted: May 30, 2005 at 01:27 PM (#1371424)He's giving up a little more than a hit an inning but his WHIP (1.29) isn't horrible.
I don't think he deserves a demotion. I'm guessing that there's more to this story than we're hearing at the moment.
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John
As Dan points out, it's basically just been the Red Sox beating up Bush. He's been fine against everybody else, and his overall line is very similar to Josh Towers. But by all accounts he's not getting his breaking pitches to work properly. I think this is simply a tune-up stint, let him focus on getting all his pitches working without having to concern himself with actually getting batters out. I'll be very surprised if he's down for more than a couple weeks.
The Jays are getting into a crunch with the pitchers at the top end of the system. They need to sort out who slots in behind Halladay - Bush, Gaudin, Towers, and Gustavo Chacin are not top-of-the-rotation-for-a-playoff-team kind of pitchers, but for the time being they all look like they'll be capable big league starters for the next few years. Meanwhile, everybody in the bullpen is pitching quite well, including the journeyman longmen Pete Walker and Scott Downs. Then there's Francisco Rosario, who's been somewhat inconsistent in AAA but mostly looking like the top prospect he was before his Tommy John in 2003. More? Brandon League was rated as the organization's best prospect by BA coming into this season. He's been bad both in Toronto and at AAA so far this year.
The Jays will be dealing away some pitchers before 2006, and they're trying to figure out which ones to keep. I think it's as simple as that.
Actually, it was the post above you, not me!
It's a shame, he has pitched well aside from Boston.
Good thing the Rays got Geoff Blum, Kevin Cash, and Jason Romano in return or those trades would look pretty bad!
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