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I really hope Wietgrefe and Hartle start in Greensboro next season. I don’t see very much reason for either to start in Bradenton like Carlson Reed did this year. Start them in High A like Patrick Reilly; at leas one of them.

Bradenton- Matt Ager, Mueth, Hartle/Wietgrefe, Antwone Kelly, Clevari Tejada, Kellington/Bimbi/Shirk

**Levi Sterling and Carlos Castillo start in the Complex

Greensboro- Curtis, Kennedy, Hartle/Wietgrefe, Dotel, Chang, Ercolani/Jimenez/Oliver

Altoona - Barco, Reed, Solometo, Diamond, Perachi, McMillan/Massey/Randall

Indy - Oviedo, Harrington, Ashcraft, Burrows, Chen, Sullivan/Fellows

Something along those lines would be my prediction right now with Skenes, Keller, Jones, Bubba, and an UFA as the starting rotation for the big club. And I would move Falter and Luis Ortiz to the pen and Oviedo probably starts in Indy on a pitch/innings limit(rehab assignment). I just saw news that they expect him to be ready by Spring Training((with no setbacks))).

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"It’s doubtful whether the recently fired Junior Vizcaino was the sole reason for the collapse of the team’s Latin American scouting program."

Is is scouting or development? It is one thing to develop a standout 22-year-old college senior from the SEC into an MLB player. It is quite another to develop a 16-year-old kid from the barrios of Caracas into an MLB player.

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This FO’s problem isn’t scouting or development. It’s baseball.

Latin America presents the greatest challenges, so it makes sense that a staff that’s incompetent in nearly all areas would do worst of all there. It presents more opportunities for Cherington’s one true specialty: failure.

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