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Originally Posted by alnorth
The scouts and people paid to judge these things are all convinced, thats good enough for me.
I'll also flip it on you: why is 2020 so valuable that we should be willing to do anything, anything at all, that might even slightly damage 2014? If we keep Ventura down a month, he looks awesome the rest of the year, and we miss the playoffs by one game, I'm going to be very unhappy. By the time 2020 rolls around the team might not be good and we may end up trading him off that July.
You have got to agree that if we ignore service time and focus only on baseball reasons, the right thing to do is to go with Ventura at #5, and that anybody else hurts the team at least a little bit.
Thats the beginning and end of it for me. If we were a lot better than the Tigers or if we had no chance at the playoffs then thats different, but we need every last fraction of WAR.
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I'm not arguing about 2020 and that year, I'm just pointing out the guys on radio and the forums that are absolutely clamouring for Ventura to be in the rotation...
based off one start in spring training. Not directing this at you, specifically, Al.
I don't give a flipping flip about service time. We haven't had a decent pitcher be successful from our own organization since Greinke... and before that it was Rosada (and only for a very short stint)... I ache for a pitcher to call our own... This town aches... which is why I think so many want to see him here so badly... whether he's ready or not.
Just temper the expectations of the kid is all, before throwing around "Ace" comments, etc...