Bullington
Not to mention Moose at the top of the BA prospect hotsheet (whoa!). There's a blurb about Melville in there you can shield your eyes from. But check out the Bullingon blurb:
Bryan Bullington, rhp, Royals. Really, one could nominate the entire Triple-A Omaha pitching staff for Blast From The Past. Their leaders in innings pitched: Bullington, Gaby Hernandez, Philip Humber, Anthony Lerew and Bruce Chen. Of those five, only Hernandez has never ranked among our Top 100 Prospects—though he was a 2004 third-round pick and peaked at No. 3 on three straight organization Top 10 Prospects lists from 2005-07. But as to Bullington, his pitching in Triple-A this season and last has made palatable the idea that the 29-year-old (and first overall pick in 2002) could be a low-leverage reliever in the big leagues. Now with his fourth organization, he has jumped out to a 2-0, 1.54 start for Omaha, registering 27 strikeouts and 10 walks in 35 innings thus far. He's held batters to a .169 average and allowed only one home run. Don't look now, but Bullington's low-90s fastball, sinking change, cutter and slider have given him the weaponry necessary to attack Pacific Coast League opponents. In the past two seasons (caveat: totaling 73 innings), he's run up a 2.58 ERA to go with strong ratios of 8.6 strikeouts, 2.1 walks and 0.4 home runs per nine innings.
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Bullington meow!
Don't Fuccop Succop
by chicks_love_chiefs on May 10, 2010 12:54 PM EDT reply actions
Agree
Been on the Bullington train all year (the silver bullit?) and am hoping for a call-up. I don’t really trust anyone in the bullpen other than Soria (except, oddly, maybe Farnsworth.)
batter nine you sucky
Werd
I’ve been expecting him to come up as well. Alot of talk from Hillman about reducing walks and here’s a guy that has a low walk/9inning stat.
So is Bullington a possible callup?
Why the heck not at this point? He’s 29. We’re not winning this year. This is probably one of his last couple years to get to the big leagues. He’s pitching lights-out. He was once the #1 overall draft pick. This should be a no-brainer for Moore.
Bring him into the bullpen. The bullingpen.

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