Bees starters are the currency of the future

We hyped up the NW Arkansas pitching staff going into this year. Does the foursome of starters for the Bees this year of Gutierrez, Caldera, Mitchell and Duffy become our next most-watched group? Wilmington's starters had some strong numbers as well. GMDM is rolling in the dough of baseball currency.

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Blue Rocks that is

In my mention of “Wilmington’s starters having good numbers.”

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by daverclear on Sep 11, 2008 10:53 PM EDT reply actions

And eventually the whole system is going to be littered with pitching prospects if DM gets his way. Especially if they keep drafting like they’ve done the past couple years…next years Bees team is going to have a lot of nice young pitchers as well (Montgomery, Melville, Flanagan, Herrera, etc…).

Don’t forget Cegarra either, he will likely be with this group in Wilmington next year. Brent Fisher’s still alive too, and he’s pitched damn well since coming back this year.

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by doublestix on Sep 11, 2008 11:17 PM EDT reply actions

The NWA pitchers deserved the hype (and for the most part lived up to it)

The NWA rotation had two exceptional prospects, two pretty good prospects and one marginal prospects. The two exceptional prospects took nice steps forward, the two pretty good prospects and the marginal prospect treaded water.

This is just my opinion. I could easily be wrong.

by Scott McKinney on Sep 11, 2008 11:57 PM EDT reply actions

'09 should be the year of the pitcher for the minor league system

Omaha
Rosa, Cortes, Hughes, Hayes
NW Arkansas
Wood, Pimintel, Johnson, Nicoll
Wilmington
Cegarra, Duffy, Gutierrez, Caldera, Mitchell
Burlington
Montgomery, Flanagan, Herrera, Runion, Melville

Depth in the bullpen also at pretty much every spot. ’09 might be a year that we see GMDM tradeoff some of this depth for some bats.

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by kcscoliny on Sep 12, 2008 11:47 AM EDT reply actions

If even half those guys continue to progress

We can trade four of them for Good Stuff and still have a starting rotation lurking behind Curtain #2.

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by jonfmorse on Sep 12, 2008 3:39 PM EDT up reply actions

I can't get real excited about pitching prospects

Until at least High A ball. I’ve seen way too many guys look awesome in low A ball and turn into turds.

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by RoyalsRetro on Sep 12, 2008 12:18 PM EDT reply actions

You guys are forgetting about Augustine.

We’ll probably use him as a starter next year too, won’t we?

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by 306008 on Sep 12, 2008 12:21 PM EDT reply actions

He was used as a reliever this year for the most part...

I’d say he’ll just continue to piggyback with either Mitchell or Duffy…

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by doublestix on Sep 12, 2008 2:15 PM EDT up reply actions

but he always threw 3-5 innings.

Usually a team will use a guy like that who they plan on starting in the future. But I don’t know the plans with Augustine. There was another one but I can’t think of who it was….

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by 306008 on Sep 12, 2008 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions