July 17, 201214 yr Hendriks can't pitch stats prove that.Is this a serious answer? I haven't been around here enough to know if there is sarcasm involved in this answer or not. You serious here, Mav?
July 17, 201214 yr Is this a serious answer? I haven't been around here enough to know if there is sarcasm involved in this answer or not. You serious here, Mav?He may have been "trolling" and you took the bait...
July 17, 201214 yr Agreed, he could, but #3 pitchers (year after year) are pretty rare, really. It is possible, but not likely, that any pitcher becomes that in the majors, let alone a guy that wasn't in any top 100 list at the beginning of the year.....(I think that is right). To me, that ranking is about probability, not upside.True, #3s are pretty rare over the course of a career. They often end up teetering between #2 and #4. I really dislike using Radke as a comp but I think that's a possible target for Hendriks. When healthy, I think Baker is a slightly better pitcher than most years of Radke. What Brad really had going for him was health.
August 12, 201214 yr opinions definately vary on these guys...i have seen all of them quite a bit thru the years(devries the least) & have heard several professional opinions of most of them & i would list them in order of just stuff ...diamond,walters,deduno,devries & hendricks...hendricks is listed last because he doesnt have one plus pitch,FB velocity is avg,movement is not good,curve & change are avg at best......diamong has plus command along with other pitches that he commands the zone with, walters has a plus change,his change was rated the best in the cards org every year & tops in the pcl for a couple years,deduno has a good slider/curve that would be great out of the pen..devries would be better if he canned his slow curve & stuck with the hard slider....& hendricks will have to have pin point control to have any success in the bigs....
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