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Noesi throws 94 and is half-way brilliant with runners in the dugout. You're watching his downside right now - he cannot get outs when he needs them, which is a combination of an ineffectual out pitch with runners on and horrible pitching acumen/nerves.
Why would we want to watch his downside play out in the pros? If this was the only way he could dig out, then I'd find some way to sit through it. He's not out of options, though, so it's not the only way.
Beavan is a control freak with zero out pitches - this is basically his downside too. With Noesi the upside is 110 and the downside is apparently 60. With Beavan it's more of a 70-100 spread.
In the minors sit a guy with more Ks and the same control as Beavan (Erasmo) and one with more Ks with even fewer hits than Noesi (Hultzen) but without his demonstrated on-base atrocities.
If the guys on the big-league squad are hitting their downside projections, while the minor league guys looked prepped for at least mid-range projections as high or higher than the midrange on our two major leaguers...
What's the problem? We won't lose Beavan or Noesi but we trade their current failures for another shot at upside while they go work on getting to their own upsides.
Win-win.
Isn't it July yet so I can see this play out? I'd like some big-league innings for Hultzen this year to work out the kinks of major-league transition and be good to go for next year.
Or conversely to fall on his face too so that he knows what to work on. With an ERA approaching zero he's not being given enough data in AA, that's for sure.
~G