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Trouble ahead for Matt Moore?


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Interesting article on how spring wildness is often a harbinger of a poor season: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/spring-training-doesnt-matter-but/
There’s a strike zone there, and Matt Moore needs to find it with greater regularity.

And he’ll keep trying, and he’ll keep saying the right things. The Rays will keep giving him opportunities, because he’s good enough, even with the concerns. But Matt Moore came into the spring with a control problem. Most of the way through the spring, he still has a control problem, and it might be even worse than it’s been. Plenty of pitchers with good stuff want to throw more strikes. Some of them manage it.

Comp of Daniel CaBBrera? Whoa

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