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Good outing. Only three innings and 47 pitches. Was it raining or injured or???
Any reports on his velo/pitch selection? 9 Ks is nice to hear, though!
Said he was sitting at 96MPH while touching 99. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/nationals-journal/wp/2016/05/18/how-reynaldo-lopez-became-a-hard-throwing-nationals-prospect/
I'm more interested in the development of his change up and curve. Velo is nice, but if he's gonna be a starter, has gotta have those too
With the starters we have and Giolito coming soon seems best to use him in the pen.
Nah, always develop SP till the very end. If nothing else then to be tradebait. Besides, if Strasburg is the real deal the first three years on his deal, I'd imagine he'd be gone anyways.
I wouldn't stop developing him as a starter, but if he can help out of the pen short term, I think you take advantage of it. Him relieving to end the year doesn't mean he can't or won't go back to the rotation in AAA in 2017.
http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2016_05_29_haraax_akraax_1&t=g_box&sid=t5475 innings, 5 hits, one run, 12 strikeouts
I smell bullpen arm. Don't care what the others here say about needing to keep him as a starter.
I do too,but it's still useful to build him up as a starter. Look at Betances. The ability to give a guy the ball in the 6th and get through the 7th or even 8th is amazing.
Give him some off time and then bring him up in August.
Oh no ... No Lopez is a ways off. They won't give up on him starting for a couple years.
7 IP 5 H 2 R 1 BB 13 KDon't know how much longer he'll be a Nat