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Bullpenner update

==Dan Cortes==

Good: Cortes has been pitching pretty much only in save situations.  Either grooming or showcasing.  And he is 7-for-7.

Good: Only 6 hits in 10.1 IP for .176 avg. against, and 3 ER for a 2.61 ERA.

Bad: 8 walks in those 10.1 IP vs. 7 K.

It hasn't been killing him, and Venezuelan umps are notoriously, well, not the pinnacle of the profession.  So maybe he's just "effectively wild."

 

==Josh Lueke==

Good: Pretty much everything.  Gameday sez: consistently 94-96 with the fastball, 83 change, 80 curve.  The line:

10 G, 11.1 IP, 7 H, 1 ER, 0 HR, 3 BB, 12 K for an ERA of 0.79

Recall that those 3 walks are the 16th, 17th and 18th of the calendar year in 60 appearances and 74.1 IP.

 

==Mauricio Robles==

Good: 1 ER in 7 appearances, 5.0 IP.

Bad: 6 walks in those 5.0 IP.  With 6 H and 6 BB, he's allowed 12 baserunners in 5 innings.  But only 2 have scored.

Let's just blame everything on Venezuelan umps.

 

==Josh Fields==

Good: 5 of his 8 appearances he hasn't allowed a run.

Bad: the other 3 appearances.

You never know what they're working on in Arizona, but the reports on Fields have been mixed to negative.  Overall stats are OK, though:

8 G, 10.2 IP, 4 ER, 0 HR, 5 BB, 8 K

 

==Edward Paredes==

Not everyone in Venezuela is walking folks.  Paredes has 0 in 7 appearances, and 5 K in 4.0 IP.  Only once did he allow more than one baserunner, and that was the time he gave up his only ER.

 

==Scott Patterson==

We don't even know if the journeyman 6-foot-7 righty -- whose over-the-head delivery is "like a pitching machine" and makes the ball "come out of the sky" -- will be invited back to Tacoma, but he has 18 K in 17.0 IP (he's struck out a gizillion everywhere he's pitched), with only 3 walks (walks did him in in his cups o' coffee with the Yanks and Padres).  He has Lara's two saves that Cortes didn't get.

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