Remember how incensed you were that the Ms would draft Morrow over Lincecum when Timmy was literally twice the pitcher Morrow was against the same hitters?
Similar thing with Bauer versus Cole. Bauer set the school K record and led the nation with 165 strikeouts, and has outpitched him 2 years running, basically. He doesn't have the frame or the top-end MPH that Cole does, and Cole's secondary stuff is apparently getting much better...but Bauer is mulching the same hitters more often than Gerrit is. He struck out 11.3 per 9 last year, and 13.5 this year. His K:BB was 4.0 last year when the bats were unchanged, and is closer to 5.0 this year.
And he's an absolute character with his own ideas on how to do things. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/17/sports/la-sp-0218-trevor-bauer-2...
I really do love him. If the Mariners drafted him OVER Cole I would not be upset, I would be extremely interested. He and Hultzen are the two pitchers I find most intriguing out of the non-Cole guys.
~G
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