Comments on: Here a Rookie, There a Rookie, Everywhere a Rookie Hurler… Welcome, Marc Rzepczynski

By: homeboy69

homeboy69 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:11:37 +0000

It’s a good thing they didn’t pick rookie Tyler Ybarra to pitch! They would of just been way disappointed! Watch and see, Ybarra will NOT go far! Very suprised he made it this far since he can’t seem to stay away from those drugs. I heard his father was the same and even did time in the old slammer! Like father, like son they say!

By: charliedvrs

charliedvrs — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:17:04 +0000

Yea, disastrous to fantastic to over 100 combined D/L days for those three guys. Rushing these guys up could have something to do with how often Toronto’s young arms could be ending up on the D/L, could also just be plain bad luck. Lets just hope the Polish Rifle doesn’t suffer the same fate.

By: jw

jw — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:10:46 +0000

This has been the case in Toronto since the beginning of ’07, when they released veteran has-beens Tomo Ohka and Victor Zambrano in favour of young up-and-comers Shaun Marcum, Dustin McGowan, and Jesse Litsch. Their pitching staff went from disastrous to fantastic.

By: Slugger O'Toole

Slugger O'Toole — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:13:33 +0000

Thank you for the phonetic aid, it was appreciated. I think Toranto is doing something that FanGraphs writers have advocated recently and forskaing weak veteran signings in favor of giving their minor league pitchers a chance. I like it. A fresh young arm, inexperience though it may be it probably better than a journeyman vet that never had much success anyway. Now if the Blue Jays can convince Selig to switch them over to the NL East they might be on the way to perennial contender status

By: theraysparty

theraysparty — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:51:51 +0000

he did look exactly like a left Materson. A sinker and a slurve made the Rays hitters look silly because they had never seen him before. Only gave up a couple of hits though I don’t think he will hold that up for long.

Whips his long arms in that sinkerball fashion. Could stay up longer in this stint longer than what most people would think he would.

By: Marc Hulet

Marc Hulet — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:21:41 +0000

Left-handers on average throw softer than right-handers… and so a “left-handed version” of Masterson would still be an apt comparison. Zep makes up for the lesser velo with more deception in his delivery.

By: d

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:51:53 +0000

HA – the link for Brad Mills goes to the current BoSox bench coach player days. Right country, wrong century! :)

By: alskor

alskor — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:15:03 +0000

Have to disagreee. Masterson throws harder and has significantly better stuff than Rzepczynski. Masterson was a top 40 prospect on his own merits as a starting pitcher. Rzepczynski is having a nice year, but he also seems to work mid 80′s with rather unimpressive secondary offerings.