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olehippi Veteran All-Star

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Olehippi, do we have to be in midseason form to pitch two lousy innings?

Look at the bullpen and we have a lot of guys like that: Sarfate, McGrory, Sherrill, Hoey, Bradford and Walker...all of these guys are considered situational or closer/setup types who only pitch one frame. We had too much of that last year, and maybe that's one reason the bullpen was so bad. A starter goes out early and you need to pitch the whole staff to get thru 9 innings forcryinoutloud! A couple of bad games in a row and you have a situation with a lot guys coming in 2 and 3 days in a row and it's a disaster.

Just to pitch for two innings, maybe not. But to pitch effectively for two innings, I would probably say "yes."

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And we also have potential multi-inning players in Burress, Leicester, Johnson, Novoa. If we lose this game 30-3 and we use 27 pitchers to each get one out, it means nothing other than that's how Trembley wanted to use people today.

Leicester and Burress are cannon fodder , JJohnson hasn't pitched more than a couple innings at the ML level and hasn't been that great when in the minors, and Novoa is mediocre at best. If you start using them you'll have 30-3 games every 3 or 4 nites. You need at least a couple of guys who can go out there and eat up 2 or 3 innings apiece and get outs, not a bunch of one-inning "specialists" who fols up like an accordian when they go over 15 pitches or so.

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Love Wieters, but people who thought he might be ready this year are nuts. He has been way overmatched at the plate, so far. I'm sure he'll get there, but he's nowhere near ready to face ML pitchers now.

If he can't hit decently now, I question if he'll really be ready next year

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