Rotation appears to be set...

SteadyFreddy · Post by **SteadyFreddy** » Thu Feb 15, 2018 3:52 pm

Looks like Taillon, Nova, Williams,Musgrove, and Kuhl are going to be your starting 5 to open the year. It looks like Glasnow is gonna have to work his butt off just to make this team which I am perfectly fine with. As far as I’m concerned until Glasnow proves otherwise he is a lost cause and isn’t going to help this team win games.

dogknot17@yahoo.co · Post by **dogknot17@yahoo.co** » Thu Feb 15, 2018 4:42 pm

I think Glasnow is a lock for the bullpen. He is kind of in between right now. He dominates AAA, but struggles in the majors. He is still very young, so I am not worried. Maybe he needs to learn from the best and the pitching coach guru.

CarolinaBucco · Post by **CarolinaBucco** » Thu Feb 15, 2018 5:24 pm

If Brault is solid in the spring I think he should be in the rotation above either Musgrove or Kuhl, if one of them has a bad spring. I think it's important to have at least one lefty to mix things up.

Bobster21 · Post by **Bobster21** » Thu Feb 15, 2018 6:47 pm

Does Glasnow have any options left?

dogknot17@yahoo.co · Post by **dogknot17@yahoo.co** » Thu Feb 15, 2018 7:03 pm

5674677A797C7B74576076767A150 wrote: If Brault is solid in the spring I think he should be in the rotation above either Musgrove or Kuhl, if one of them has a bad spring. I think it's important to have at least one lefty to mix things up.

How do you bump either Kuhl or Musgrove out of the rotation? Kuhl was very good in the second half last year and Musgrove has some experience and should be ready to go.

Might be talk of a rotation battle, but I think it is pretty much set too.

Bobster21 · Post by **Bobster21** » Thu Feb 15, 2018 7:16 pm

050E060A0F0E155056211800090E0E4F020E610 wrote: If Brault is solid in the spring I think he should be in the rotation above either Musgrove or Kuhl, if one of them has a bad spring. I think it's important to have at least one lefty to mix things up.

How do you bump either Kuhl or Musgrove out of the rotation? Kuhl was very good in the second half last year and Musgrove has some experience and should be ready to go.

Might be talk of a rotation battle, but I think it is pretty much set too.

I don't know how Musgrove will turn out but I was impressed with Kuhl. The big surprise last year was that he found a plus FB he didn't have a year earlier. That gave him and his coaches something else to work with and I suspect he will get better. It was his first full season and a different approach to pitching. And at 25, he's just a year older than Glasnow, who we're supposed to have patience with due to his age.

SammyKhalifa · Post by **SammyKhalifa** » Thu Feb 15, 2018 7:17 pm

I am having a hard time deciding what to think about Musgrove and therefore how OK I am with this.

He seems like a nice guy though.

dogknot17@yahoo.co · Post by **dogknot17@yahoo.co** » Thu Feb 15, 2018 7:38 pm

083A36362210333A37323D3A5B0 wrote: I am having a hard time deciding what to think about Musgrove and therefore how OK I am with this.

He seems like a nice guy though.

He has the minor league numbers too.

Quail · Post by **Quail** » Thu Feb 15, 2018 7:43 pm

From an article by Rob Biertempfel in The Athletic, Hurdle's comments regarding Musgrove and Glasnow:

Hurdle expects Musgrove to be part of the starting rotation on opening day. The right-hander was a spot starter and long reliever last season with the Astros.

“We’d like to plug him into the rotation and let him run with it,” Hurdle said. “We believe he has the tools to do it. The experience he gained in bullpen … he had some pretty good guys to learn from last year. We envision him being in that rotation moving into the season.”

That means former top prospect Tyler Glasnow, whose 22 big league outings over the past two seasons have ranged from inconsistent to downright awful, will open the season as a long reliever.

“Tyler is going to have an opportunity to pitch, to show us the consistency to get outs in this spring training vacuum — whether it’s finding a way to the rotation, somehow, some way, or it’s (as) a multiple-inning reliever in the bullpen,” Hurdle said. “He just needs to pitch. Give him the ball and see what he can do with it.”

I love the "spring training vacuum" Hurdlism ;D

ScottinMass · Post by **ScottinMass** » Thu Feb 15, 2018 7:47 pm

So if things get figured out with Glasnow and he can get into the rotation for 2019 (not 2018), the rotation could look like:

Taillon (27 y.o)

Keller (22 y.o.)

Kuhl (26 y.o.)

Musgrove (26 y.o.)

Glasnow (25 y.o)

This doesn't include Trevor Williams (26 y.o.) or Brault (26 y.o.)