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It was in place long before these 3 starts.  :- ) 
See e.g. my post after Pineda's March 16th ST start.  
You continue to handcuff yourself with your own paradigm JH.  I'm not talking "3 game sample size."  I'm not talking performance analysis!
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All sorts of funny things happen with minor league / college (A+) stats.  I remember arguing endlessly with people over Lincecum's 4-6 walks before he hit the majors, how they would go way down upon promotion.   Statheads reacted by pooh-pooh'ing it, of course.
Kerry Wood walked 6+ guys in the minors and you simply couldn't talk to statheads about him.
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Not trying to offend, honestly.  If you've been reading long, you know I try to be nice.
But anybody who has watched Michael Pineda pitch to five batters, much less five games --- > if they don't know who he is, then they can't "see" baseball.  
Sorry if the truth hurts, but one inning would have been all you needed in 1997 with the Big Unit.  One inning should be all you need with Michael Pineda.
A lot of guys cannot "see" what a 98 fastball does to a baseball game.  The lefties can start their swings 10 seconds early, can screw themselves into the ground on every "slider" and the statheads still don't understand what is occurring in that 60 feet, 6 inches.
There are guys who manage to lose despite throwing 98 mph, but only under specific conditions (which some bloggers wouldn't know a blinkin' thing about).  Those conditions most definitely do not apply to Pineda.
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No insult.  Just fact.  ML scouts can "see" the game within the 60' 6", most blogs cannot, and no ML scout (or hitter) is questioning Michael Pineda at this point.
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