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Freddy Garcia | SP | Yankees | Ownership: 29% Yahoo!, 45.7%
The Yankees decided not to blow their prospect wad on a starting pitcher
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Eric Seidman is handing the ball to Freddy Garcia, former Mariners and White Sox great, who won a ring with the White Sox in 2005.
Garcia spent last season with the Phillies, though most of it was not actually
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Bryan SmithMike Minor is a perfect example for why draft day armchair analysis doesn't work. In 2009, the Vanderbilt lefty went seventh overall to the Braves, amid fairly consistent criticism from pundits. His
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Jackson Top of the 4th
Pitching Change: Onelki Garcia replaces Chris Reed.
Stefen Romero strikes out swinging.
Mike Zunino strikes out swinging.
Rich
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Mike AxisaHere are four players with low ownership rates that could give your team a little boost...
Jaime Garcia | SP | Cardinals (25% owned)
St. Louis has allowed the second fewest runs in the league
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Carson Cistulli major-leaguer Karim Garcia, currently of Mexican club Yaquis de Obregón.
In tonight's edition, we find a another grainy daguerreotype -- in this case, not of Garcia being walked intentionally
- Potential 2012 K/9 Surgers
Mike Podhorzer and stats haters alike. Here are three pitchers whose SwStk% suggest better strikeout rates could be in their futures.
Jaime Garcia | 10.3% SwStk% | 7.1 K/9
Garcia essentially came out
- Jaime Garcia's Return Key for Cardinals
Jack MooreEleven innings after his departure Jaime Garcia's return to the Cardinals' rotation was buried by the absurdity of one of the season's longest games. After battling back from one run down in the 16th
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Mike AxisaBy now you've heard about and have had time to digest the blockbuster trade that sent Vernon Wells and his entire contract to the Angels for Juan Rivera and Mike Napoli. It was a stunning transaction
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Mike AxisaComing into the season, most considered Angels' backstop Mike Napoli to be one of the dozen best fantasy catchers in the game, and why wouldn't they? He had a .362 wOBA with 20 homers and 56 RBI
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Dave CameronFrom 2001 to 2006, Freddy Garcia posted six consecutive seasons with 200 or more innings pitched, and while he wasn't an ace, he was an above average durable starting pitcher. That skillset helped
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Jonah Keri was a perfectly reasonable projection.
Perfectly reasonable until we realize that Jaime Garcia is the new Adam Wainwright.
As Garcia climbed the minor league ranks, he seemed to have some potential
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Mike AxisaWith Jason Heyward eating medium leverage situations for breakfast in the big leagues, and Jesus Montero still trying to find his way as a 20-year-old in Triple, the Marlins' Mike Stanton has grabbed
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Joe PawlikowskiIf not for Ubaldo Jimenez's continued dominance, Jaime Garcia might be the big story of the National League right now. Garcia pitched six shutout innings last night, holding the Padres to just three
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Mike Axisa to avoid. The IP totals listed included majors and minors.
Jaime Garcia | 2010 IP: 103 | 2009 IP: 37.2
Garcia missed basically all of the 2009 season after having Tommy John surgery, so his
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First, Karim Garcia was Baseball America's seventh-overall prospect. Then, he played on at least 11 different teams in at least four different countries. Then he hit a single in the bottom
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Mike AxisaWith Jason Heyward, Stephen Strasburg, Mike Stanton, Buster Posey, Neftali Feliz, and Carlos Santana now in the big leagues, just four of Marc's preseason top ten prospects are left in the minors
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Mike Axisa Bumgarner while the ottoneu points results equate him to last year's Jaime Garcia and Mat Latos. The masses clearly expect some big things out of the Rangers' new right-hander.
Based on those
- Waiver Wire: July 15th
Mike AxisaTwo blasts from the past that could give your team a little nudge in the right direction...
Freddy Garcia | SP | White Sox | 13% owned
You have to hand it to the now 35-year-old Garcia. The guy
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Why, hello to you too.
Toinght, 8:10pm: Zack Greinke vs. Jaime Garcia.
Zack Greinke (3.83 ERA, 2.66 SIERA)
Greinke has spawned a Twitter war this afternoon, as everyone seemingly wants
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Mike Newman, a team featuring Mike Zunino, Brad Miller and other highly ranked prospects, Garcia shredded the competition. Across three innings, the Cuban lefty struck out seven behind a 91-93 MPH fastball
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Dan Wade struggles with runners on base.
Jaime Garcia
With a month of the season left to go, Garcia has thrown almost exactly the same number of innings he threw last year with the exact same number
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Mike Newman prospect played in Brooklyn last year (Brandon Nimmo). Additionally, their projected outfield of Lucas Duda, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Mike Baxter, Collin Cowgill and Andrew Brown platoon is built to make
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Mike Axisa. It's possible his arm is healthier now than at any point in the last two or five or ten years. Wouldn't that be kinda neat?
The Yankees replaced Freddy Garcia (5.19 FIP) with David Phelps (5.15
- Crowdsourcing Results: Darvish's Ottoneu Points
Mike Axisa
Total
932.5
IP per 100 Points
19.4
Pitchers who produced similar total point values last year include Ervin Santana (921.3), Ricky Nolasco (925.0), Jaime Garcia (934.3), and Mat
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Jurickson Profar is untouchable, but Mike
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99.6%. That was the Red Sox's win expectancy when Vicente Padilla struck out Andruw Jones to open the seventh inning on Saturday. Freddy Garcia did not make it out of the second inning and rookie
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14.7%
10.9%
Worley
- Mike Newman Prospects Chat - 4/26/13
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- NL SP for $1: Mike Minor
Mike Podhorzer a guaranteed spot in the rotation and rookies that fantasy owners are typically advised to avoid, regardless of that pitcher's skill set. One of the most intriguing names in that bottom tier is Mike Minor
- Mike Podhorzer's 10 Bold Predictions
Mike Podhorzer posted marks above .300.
5. Ichiro Suzuki outearns Mike Stanton.
Whaaaaaat?! Like the Bonifacio prediction above, I am actually projecting this as I have Ichiro valued right above Stanton
- Starting Pitchers: September 20th
Mike Axisa skipping his final start, scheduled for the last day of the season ... Jaime Garcia will have his start skipped on Thursday, the second straight time the team will sit him in an effort to control his
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Mike Newman defense is a hair below the Red Sox product.12:26Comment From JosephWith Mike Foltynewicz's promotion to AA in mind, if he were to finish the year in AAA, where would be among the game's top pitching
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Mike Podhorzer if his control returns after coming back from TJ surgery. Of course, I thought I had some pitching to give and then Jaime Garcia promptly gets bombed and is hurt again and then Paulino strains his
- Spotted: Karim Garcia Getting Walked Intentionally
Carson Cistulli
It's not immediately clear to the author what set of circumstances might have led to the six intentional walks recorded by Karim Garcia during his 10-year major-league career. Whatever
- AL Starting Pitcher Rankings Update
Mike Podhorzer Buehrle
Kyle Drabek
Joel Pineiro
Fausto Carmona
Rick Porcello
Freddy Garcia
Matt Harrison
Brandon McCarthy
I combined the previous The Black Keys tier with Cee Lo Green as Cee Lo had become
- Padres Rotation: Depth Chart Discussions
Mike Podhorzer the options.
Early Depth Chart:
Clayton Richard
Edinson Volquez
Jason Marquis
Eric Stults
Freddy Garcia
Casey Kelly
Anthony Bass
Andrew Cashner
Tyson Ross
Cory Luebke
Phew
- Play For This Year, Not Next
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A.J. Burnett $4
Dillon Gee $1
Erasmo Ramirez $1
Jason Hammel $5
Hisashi Iwakuma $4
Matt Garza $4
Jaime Garcia $1
Tommy Milone $2
Tim Hudson $3
Derek Holland $2
That is quite a decent list
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- 2012 Organizational Rankings: #1 - NY Yankees
Mike Axisa rotation last year, GM Brian Cashman went for broke this winter. Bartolo Colon and A.J. Burnett were replaced by Hiroki Kuroda and Michael Pineda. Freddy Garcia returns to the back of the rotation
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Fittingly, Lidge's final act as a Major Leaguer was a strikeout. He unceremoniously whiffed Freddy Garcia in extra innings
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Mike Podhorzer the possible promise of a higher strikeout rate is even more of a reason to get excited. If only Jaime Garcia's innings jump did not scare me away, he would be one of the more intriguing pitchers
- ZiPS Breakout: Anthony Rizzo
Mike Axisa. The NL Central isn't blessed with many above-average lefty starters outside of Wandy Rodriguez, Jaime Garcia, and maybes like Aroldis Chapman and Francisco Liriano, so the need for a backup first
- Updated AL Starting Pitcher Rankings
Mike Podhorzer Keys
Carlos Carrasco
Francisco Liriano
Mark Buehrle
Joel Pineiro
Fausto Carmona
Philip Humber
Freddy Garcia
Matt Harrison
Brandon McCarthy
The hope is that your pitching staff includes none
- Updated AL Starting Pitcher Rankings - September
Mike Podhorzer Pineiro
Fausto Carmona
Philip Humber
Freddy Garcia
Matt Harrison
Danny Duffy
Jeremy Guthrie
He's 15-4, Rookie of the Year! Whatever. Nova is an extreme ground ball pitcher, and that's about
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Mike Axisa
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2.8
Mike Trout
175
.290
.370
.503
.373
8.9
1.3
2.2
2.0
Vernon Wells
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.316
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- WS Scouting: Colby Lewis vs. Jaime Garcia
Steve Slowinski
How wonderfully awkward.
The last time Colby Lewis and Jaime Garcia faced off, we were treated to one of the best pitcher's duels of the World Series. Jaime Garcia shut down the Rangers for seven
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Mike Podhorzer P15
OF Alex Gordon KC R7 P1
OF Nick Markakis BAL R10 P15
OF Lorenzo Cain KC R16 P15
Util Ben Revere MIN R19 P1
SP Michael Pineda NYY R8 P15
SP Jaime Garcia STL R11 P1
SP Chris Sale
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Carson Cistulli), during which game Cuban emigre Yoenis Cespedes hit a home run that compelled veteran right-hander Freddy Garcia to discover physics again for the first time.
For the benefit of the reader, who
- Mike Minor: 2011 NL SP for $1 Review
Mike PodhorzerIn mid-March, I published an article espousing Braves starter Mike Minor as a good $1 option in your auction draft. I was a relatively big Minor fan and considered him an undervalued/sleeper breakout
- Mike Petriello's 10 Bold Predictions For 2013
Mike Petriello year. (This is also in somewhat direct opposition to Mike Axisa saying that League will be the first closer to lose his job.) Obviously, I'm not going to argue that League is the better pitcher, because
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Jason Catania: Tigers sign OF Torii Hunter
PROSPECT IMPACT: OF Avisail Garcia
For a change, maybe the Tigers will avoid rushing one of their prospects. Garcia, in fact, has already been rocketed through the system
- Eric Thames and Mike Stutes: Deep League Waiver Wire
Mike Podhorzer and speed skills don't become available in deep leagues very often.
Mike Stutes, PHI RP | 3% Owned
Ryan Madson is out, which apparently leaves Antonio Bastardo. He's certainly solid, but: .153 BABIP
- Mike Wilson and Carlos Peguero: Deep League WW Mariners Edition
Mike Podhorzer if they have any fantasy potential in deeper leagues.
Mike Wilson, OF | 2% Owned
Wilson is not exactly a prospect, as he is already 27 years old and has received Triple-A each season since