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It's his sinker that's a stinker. His cutter isn't great, but it's not his biggest issue.

His sinker should be useful and I agree its not sinking well right now. But the cutter is less good then his regular fastball, yet he keeps throwing it too often and it gets shelled.

Maybe if the sinker was working better he wouldn't be throwing so many cutters, maybe.

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It's his sinker that's a stinker. His cutter isn't great, but it's not his biggest issue.

Fangraphs has every one of his pitches at negative value this year except his slider, which is hovering barely over zero....right nowTommy Hunter is a man of many issues.

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Fangraphs has every one of his pitches at negative value this year except his curve, which is hovering barely over zero....right nowTommy Hunter is a man of many issues.

His CB and CH are well below average as well. I thought they might get better this year, but they have not. He just never developed them and has generally been cutter happy most of his career. Just not enough sppeed/movemtn diffential therre between his cutter and FB. His FB (2S/4S) are both plus imo, but he can't keep it down and locate to 4 quadrants, even though (to his credit) he generally does attack the strike zone. He's pretty much the poster child why DD/Peterson don't like the cutter and a product of poor development (though that's not really our fault in this case)

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His sinker should be useful and I agree its not sinking well right now. But the cutter is less good then his regular fastball, yet he keeps throwing it too often and it gets shelled.

Maybe if the sinker was working better he wouldn't be throwing so many cutters, maybe.

His sinker was much better last year. Just still in love with it for whatever reason.

He should just get back to the basics and stay away from his sinker for now.

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His stuff plays so much better in the pen. Can touch the mid to upper 90s. Go 2-3 IP. Love him in the pen.

Rotation:

Hammel

Chen

Saunders

Britton

Gonzalez? Tillman?

We now have a few options for depth for our rotation: Steve Johnson, Jake Arrieta, Chris Tillman, Randy Wolf

..I think we go with a 6 man rotation to give Hammel, Chen, and Gonzo more time between starts.

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His stuff plays so much better in the pen. Can touch the mid to upper 90s. Go 2-3 IP. Love him in the pen.

Rotation:

Hammel

Chen

Saunders

Britton

Gonzalez? Tillman?

We now have a few options for depth for our rotation: Steve Johnson, Jake Arrieta, Chris Tillman, Randy Wolf

..I think we go with a 6 man rotation to give Hammel, Chen, and Gonzo more time between starts.

Right now I think we have to. Hammel just coming back from injury, Tillman with dead elbow, and Chen and Britton turning in stinkers. If we don't, Showalter has to get a little smarter and do things like pull Gonzalez after six very good innings against Toronto instead of sending him out for the seventh. And have a quicker hook for guys who can't find the plate. We have the depth for September.

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TOMMY HUNTER O(vs. RED SOX, 9/22)

IP:. 1

H:o 0

R:O 0

BB: 0

SO: 0

Pitches: 12 (10 Strikes, 2 Balls)

2012 ERA: 5.58

If you have the time, it wd be great if you cd begin posting his ERA as a reliever, like you do with Matusz. (Ditto RE Arrieta.)

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