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The problem is Fulmer looks more like Addison Reed than Benintendi or Happ, lol.

You can throw 92-94 without impeccable location anymore as a starter...you have to be 95-98 or have remarkable movement.

 

Hopefully Hansen and Dunning compensate for the inconsistency/struggles at the AA and AAA level, other than Kopech.

 

No Collins today, btw.

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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 28, 2017 -> 07:29 PM)
The problem is Fulmer looks more like Addison Reed than Benintendi or Happ, lol.

You can throw 92-94 without impeccable location anymore as a starter...you have to be 95-98 or have remarkable movement.

 

Hopefully Hansen and Dunning compensate for the inconsistency/struggles at the AA and AAA level, other than Kopech.

 

No Collins today, btw.

 

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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 28, 2017 -> 07:29 PM)
The problem is Fulmer looks more like Addison Reed than Benintendi or Happ, lol.

You can throw 92-94 without impeccable location anymore as a starter...you have to be 95-98 or have remarkable movement

 

He's been as high as 95-96 according to people on twitter. I'm watching him now and he's hitting 92-94 with a slow Charlotte gun. Velocity hasn't been his problem. Hell, his first 2 runs in the 1st inning was off a guy swinging at a 3-0 count. 3rd run was off an ole defensive play by Delmonico.

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QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 28, 2017 -> 07:35 PM)
He's been as high as 95-96 according to people on twitter. I'm watching him now and he's hitting 92-94 with a slow Charlotte gun. Velocity hasn't been his problem. Hell, his first 2 runs in the 1st inning was off a guy swinging at a 3-0 count. 3rd run was off an ole defensive play by Delmonico.

His stuff would be considered above average for a ML SP and he's made real strides in the last year with his command. We were all hoping he'd be Tim Lincecum when the Sox drafted him. That probably isn't going to happen. But it's *way* too early to start talking about him as a reliever, in my opinion.

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QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 28, 2017 -> 07:27 PM)
Hansen - 5 IP 3 H 1 R 1 ER 0 BB 11 SO.

 

70 pitches.. 54 (!!) strikes.

 

Doesn't that make 21 Ks over his last 10 innings? It seems like low A isn't giving him much of a challenge, perhaps a move to Winston-Salem is in order?

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QUOTE (maxjusttyped @ May 29, 2017 -> 01:40 AM)
His stuff would be considered above average for a ML SP and he's made real strides in the last year with his command. We were all hoping he'd be Tim Lincecum when the Sox drafted him. That probably isn't going to happen. But it's *way* too early to start talking about him as a reliever, in my opinion.

 

He's repeating AAA and has a near 5 ERA. If he struggles the rest of the way, you have to try something different next season.

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QUOTE (fathom @ May 28, 2017 -> 07:42 PM)
He's repeating AAA and has a near 5 ERA. If he struggles the rest of the way, you have to try something different next season.

 

He's had two bad starts and his line suggested he was close to being call-up ready prior to that. This seems a bit overreactionary.

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QUOTE (fathom @ May 28, 2017 -> 07:42 PM)
He's repeating AAA and has a near 5 ERA. If he struggles the rest of the way, you have to try something different next season.

He'll pitch this entire season at 23. Unless his body can't take being a SP or the stuff significantly regresses I don't see the rush to move him to the bullpen.

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QUOTE (fathom @ May 28, 2017 -> 07:42 PM)
He's repeating AAA and has a near 5 ERA. If he struggles the rest of the way, you have to try something different next season.

 

Sox seriously rushed him. I still hate how they developed Fulmer (I've gone on record saying they in some ways killed his development) but I don't think you give up on him as a SP just yet. Kid just can't command anything right now.

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There are a good six or seven guys who should be moved up from Kannapolis to high A. Hansen, Morrison, Booker, Fisher, Remillard, & Zavala have no business being in low A IMO (I get why Zavala is there though). And I could see an argument made for Roman & a few of the other pitchers as well. Getz really needs to push these guys up in the coming weeks.

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