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Reds Tidbits (2013 Season)

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Officially shipping off to Boston

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Crasnik:

http://espn.go.com/mlb/hotstove12/s...nati-reds-spark-classic-risk-vs-reward-debate

It's risky for Reds to switch things up
Cincinnati plans to move hard-throwing Aroldis Chapman to the rotation for 2013

The Cincinnati Reds made one of the most provocative moves of the Major League Baseball offseason without spending a dime or cracking the cover of a Scott Boras promotional binder. After an extensive internal debate in October, they decreed that Aroldis Chapman will move from the back end of the bullpen to the starting rotation, where they hope he will blossom into must-see viewing in installments of six innings or more.

Chapman stands 6-foot-4, 200 pounds and reached 100 mph on the radar gun a major league-high 242 times last season, according to the Bill James Handbook, so the best-case scenario calls for him to join fellow lefties CC Sabathia, David Price and Clayton Kershaw as a 200-inning workhorse and perennial Cy Young Award candidate. And if you want to really dream big, think back to a pitcher who spent two decades making left-handed hitters beg out of the lineup with stiff necks, head colds and other mystery ailments every time his turn in the rotation rolled around.

Yes, Randy Johnson.

Bryan Price, Cincinnati's pitching coach, knows it's both premature and unfair to categorize Chapman as a Latin version of the Big Unit-in-waiting. But if Chapman is going to evolve as a pitcher and reach his maximum potential, Price is convinced it will have to come in the rotation. Chapman turns 25 in late February, and if the Reds pigeonhole him as a closer now, it's going to become progressively more difficult to change his long-term career arc.

"I hear the argument, 'Why mess with something when it's gone so well?'" Price said. "I get that. We have a really good team and the window of opportunity is now, and we may be better suited to Aroldis closing rather than starting because we already have a strong five-man rotation without him. I totally understand that.

"But I also have a feeling in my heart that he's not going to be the best possible pitcher he can be until he throws enough innings to master his craft. I think this kid has untapped potential, but it won't come out until we give him an opportunity to mature as a pitcher. Does he have a chance to be one of the better starters of his generation? The longer we wait, the less chance we have of ever finding out."

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Schoenfield:

http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/32466/overunder-aroldis-chapmans-ip-era

Over/under: Aroldis Chapman's IP, ERA

Jerry Crasnick has a story today on Aroldis Chapman's conversion from the bullpen to the Cincinnati Reds' rotation.

It's a two-park risk equation, of course: 1) Losing Chapman's dominance out of the bullpen (38 saves, 1.51 ERA, 15.3 K's per nine, .141 batting average allowed); 2) Will it work?

For the first question, the Reds can afford to make the move because of their bullpen depth: New closer Jonathan Broxton won't match Chapman's statistical dominance, but considering Chapman blew four saves (all games he took the loss as well), the Reds' ninth-inning save percentage may remain the same. If anything, using Chapman as a 71-inning reliever -- where a lot of those innings are wasted in two- and three-run saves -- is under utilizing a valuable asset. Beyond Chapman, you have Sean Marshall, Sam LeCure, J.J. Hoover, Jose Arredondo, Logan Ondrusek and Alfredo Simon. It should be one of the best bullpens in the National League once again.

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I won't click an ESPiN link but my .02 is that we have reasonable downside protection to keep the pen from blowing apart and the potential upside of a David Price, maybe even Randy Johnson, type ceiling.

That's a bet I make all day, every day.
































Of course we all know they will fuck it up
 
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scott91575;2299050; said:
Reds sign Miguel Olivo and Manny Parra (who actually gets a 1 year deal and put on the 40 man with Redmond DFA'd). There is your new LOOGY folks. He better not throw a single pitch vs. righties.

Championship!
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Well let's hope it's the kind of one year deal they will be willing to eat if it goes badly.

We have a 58.2 IP sample of Parra as a reliever and a couple hundred IP's as a starter where he absolutely had his brains beaten out.

The 2012 IP split is 28.2 vs LH and 30 vs RH
OPSA vs LH:.635
OPSA vs RH: .827

I'm with you, if this cocksucker ever throws a pitch to a RH batter someone should be shot.
 
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Dryden;2298618; said:
Crasnik:

http://espn.go.com/mlb/hotstove12/s...nati-reds-spark-classic-risk-vs-reward-debate



Schoenfield:

http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/32466/overunder-aroldis-chapmans-ip-era
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I personally think his dominance in the pen was a little bit overblown, the end result is all about saves, and while he did dominate, he ended up with the same amount of saves as CoCo Cordero in 2011 (and only 1 less blown save)

He was needed once in the playoffs, and he had a Coco type game, made it way too exciting in the end, after that game, we never needed him again, but if he was in the rotation, Mike Leake doesn't get run out there in game 4 and get blown apart like we knew it gonna happen, maybe if Chapman is there, he wins that 3rd game and we're playing in the NLCS
 
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