tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785794903916196345.post5322116054283939841..comments2023-09-20T07:34:24.444-05:00Comments on The Waiver Wire: Are Pitchers Really Harder To Project?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785794903916196345.post-60085751744263351692009-01-09T10:38:00.000-05:002009-01-09T10:38:00.000-05:00Tend to agree with Alex on Price price. He is goi...Tend to agree with Alex on Price price. He is going too early for a pitcher whose innings are likely to be controlled. He threw just 125 or so last season, and I suspect the Rays will limit him to the 160 area.<BR/><BR/>Nevermind his K/IP was 1.0 with the bulk in the minors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785794903916196345.post-31278324789796612782009-01-09T06:28:00.000-05:002009-01-09T06:28:00.000-05:00I guess I just don't see Price as a good opportuni...I guess I just don't see Price as a good opportunity to look for value in any case. If you 'buy' now I think you're taking a risk, and you're not getting him that cheap anyway. Should be interesting to see how quickly he develops though.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00207020302976740521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785794903916196345.post-66884777947688495362009-01-08T18:50:00.000-05:002009-01-08T18:50:00.000-05:00I'm also a huge fan of Price. And agree with Mr. A...I'm also a huge fan of Price. And agree with Mr. Anonymous/Lazy on the Liriano comparison to an extent (I wish we saw more Major League innings). <BR/><BR/>I agree with you on the idea that predicting a 5 year course for a hitter is much easier than a pitcher. That's why whenever someone signs a deal like Sabathia did this season it raises a few eyebrows. You just don't see pitchers getting many deals like that and when they do, it is often a huge mistake (Zito, Hampton, etc.)Schruenderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01804838312617606137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785794903916196345.post-34303221399543039272009-01-08T09:30:00.000-05:002009-01-08T09:30:00.000-05:00This is your anonymous dave price poster (I am jus...This is your anonymous dave price poster (I am just too lazy to sign up to google blogger).<BR/>The problem with your argument is that if price has 5 k/inning starts in April, his value will already be sky high. This holds if he breaks out this year, next year, or probably even 2010. People are not just going to forget about dave price.<BR/>As you can probably tell, I am bullish on d price this year. no, he will not have 200K this year, but I could see him being a 3.7 era, 170k pitcher out of the gate. Watching him reminds me of watching francisco liriano when he was pitching out of the bullpen in his rookie year. Their stuff is so obviously nasty, it is hard to imagine them not being able to replicate their short term performance while relieving into dominance as a starter, just as joba did. And by 'stuff', I don't mean daniel cabrera 'i have no idea where the ball is going' stuff, I mean nasty stuff with control.<BR/>But we can disagree for now. We will have to wait until he gets a few starts under his belt this year to be certain.<BR/>Keep up the good work, I love the blog.<BR/>DonaldAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785794903916196345.post-60249848315541064762009-01-08T09:17:00.000-05:002009-01-08T09:17:00.000-05:00"The common wisdom seems to be that future pitchin..."The common wisdom seems to be that future pitching performance is harder to predict than future hitting performance. In one sense that's true, but in some ways it's completely wrong." . . . That's a pretty ridiculous way to frame the argument. You can't say something is "in some ways completely wrong" and yet also claim in one sense that it's true.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com