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.