Excellent article on Thomas Harrington, pretty much a wild card in the draft who has worked hard to develop himself. Definitely an excellent prospect moving forward. Chandler is the leader to add to Keller, Skenes, and Jones early in 2025, with guys like Harrington, Barco, Solometo very close.
Yes, amazing group of young arms for the Pirates, and another 5 or 6 who are not that far behind. The Drafts of 2020 thru 2024 are filling up the Pirates Rotation for 2024-2025 with guys from the last two like Hunter Barco, Michael Kennedy, and Zander Mueth doing very well also. If we could only find a way to identify hitters!
There is absolutely zero reason to keep pitching Bednar in any situation, bottom line for me he needs to go to Bradenton and figure out what's going on, Is he out of shape or is he hurt or has he just gone to pitchers la la land and you can stick a fork in him he is done...
It’s been a tough year for him from the start. He looks out of shape, and a few setbacks have not allowed him to find any kind of consistency. Seems to rely a lot more on breaking balls. Used to issue few walks but gets behind in the count often. I’m hopeful an offseason will do him good because the history of strong performance was there.
Excellent article on Thomas Harrington, pretty much a wild card in the draft who has worked hard to develop himself. Definitely an excellent prospect moving forward. Chandler is the leader to add to Keller, Skenes, and Jones early in 2025, with guys like Harrington, Barco, Solometo very close.
Yes, amazing group of young arms for the Pirates, and another 5 or 6 who are not that far behind. The Drafts of 2020 thru 2024 are filling up the Pirates Rotation for 2024-2025 with guys from the last two like Hunter Barco, Michael Kennedy, and Zander Mueth doing very well also. If we could only find a way to identify hitters!
Do you think we need to follow the Earl Weaver philosophy of putting young arms in the big league bullpen to ripen?
There is absolutely zero reason to keep pitching Bednar in any situation, bottom line for me he needs to go to Bradenton and figure out what's going on, Is he out of shape or is he hurt or has he just gone to pitchers la la land and you can stick a fork in him he is done...
It’s been a tough year for him from the start. He looks out of shape, and a few setbacks have not allowed him to find any kind of consistency. Seems to rely a lot more on breaking balls. Used to issue few walks but gets behind in the count often. I’m hopeful an offseason will do him good because the history of strong performance was there.
True although he’s always been…portly.
Oh, I dunno. Plenty of white flag opportunities these days, now that BC has made the team "competitive." Bednar could swap roles with Tellez.