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11 minutes ago, wildcard said:

Lowther, Kremer, Akin and A Wells have all been up and down this season.

Do you think Lowther is complaining about being called to the majors? 

Of course not. every minor league pitcher would prefer pitching in the big leagues in any role vs pitching in the minors, but that's not what's best for him in his development as a starter. 

I don't really care whether he starts in the big leagues or minors, but he needs to be treated like a starting pitching prospect.

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I have never seen Lowther pitch, but eyeballing his season-by-season stats, it looks like not pitching in 2020 may have really messed up his development. ERAs of 1.66 and 2.18 in 2017-18, followed by

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My immediate Reaction to this move was, “God how stupid.” however I think it is much more likely that they are expecting that Tate is going to get blasted, and they want Anderson here to suck up

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I hate this team.  No I don't.  But I wish I could. 

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26 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

I think you are under valuing Lowther. Lowther is much better than McFarland.

Either way, I think we can agree that it's tough to get a read on him with how he's being used. I'm not going to get down on Lowther until I can see him get 10 starts at the major league level and then look at the statcast numbers, particularly the movement of his pitches.

Agreed, I am not down on Lowther so much as I am up on some of the other prospects. I do hope he will get an opportunity to start for a sustained stretch. I am also OK with trying him out in low leverage relief as he is working up to that. 

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2 hours ago, Sports Guy said:

Tough to say.  I am sure he is frustrated by how he is being handled and how he can't establish a rhythm.

For the extra $3,000 per day, I doubt he’s complaining.   By my count he’s earned $33,000 or so to supplant the $40,000 he gets for being on the 40 man roster.  But, there’s no doubt it’s disruptive.   

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