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weams Hangout Grand Counsel

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We just claimed this guy. Someone on the 40 is gone. And it's not Garcia. He's pitching.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=rondon001jor

Good PCL stats this year and last. Too old for the Rockies.

Jorge Leonardo Rondon

Position: Pitcher

Bats: Right, Throws: Right

Height: 6' 1", Weight: 215 lb.

Born: February 16, 1988 in Calabozo, Guarico, VE (Age 27.083)

Rondon, 27, is able to throw consistently 96 or above.

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ChuckS Hangout Grand Counsel

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A team that has aspirations of contending does not keep a player like Jason Garcia on their roster. It's that simple.

If we had starting pitchers going seven innings every game and didn't need to use our bullpen heavily that would be one thing, but that's certainly not the case.

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Aristotelian Hangout Grand Counsel

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He was at 80 plus pitches all over the place and putting guys on. He was beat. So you look to prevent those other runs from scoring especially in a game where your offense is a k machine and yanked 8 and 9 pitchers have embarrassed the league this year. So you pull Bud and try and keep it 2-1 and 4-1. At 4-1 game is over.

That is brilliant second guessing after the fact and of course you are right in hindsight. There is also no manager in MLB that takes out their starter after cruising for 3 and 1 out from getting out of it down 1.

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A team that has aspirations of contending does not keep a player like Jason Garcia on their roster. It's that simple.

If we had starting pitchers going seven innings every game and didn't need to use our bullpen heavily that would be one thing, but that's certainly not the case.

Unless the team feels it has to... which should tell you something about the state of our supposedly deep-depth pitching...

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