Thanks for including Patterson. He's one of the more interesting guys. When he landing in Tacoma it reminded me of Madritsch and Sherrill. You said "walks did him in" at both previous stops, but that only happened in SD, and I heard they were messing with his motion. With the Yankees minor league teams?
2006: 38.2 IP in AA, 6 hits, 10 K, 2BB per 9
2007: 74.1 IP in AA, 5 hits, 10.5 K, 1.5 BB per 9 (!!)
2008: 47.1 IP in AAA, 9 hits, 10 K, 2.5 BB
Then he got DFAed and crashed into the SD mess of 2009, where he STILL didn't get a big league chance, and basically gave two middle fingers to that season in the minors. After putting up THOSE lines in AA and AAA and barely sniffing the bigs I'd be miffed too.
Then he got his head on straight, got determined again, and did this for us last year:
8 hits, 9.5 K, 2.5 BB per nine.
The guy is a strike throwing machine with command. He doesn't throw hard, he's just deceptive as all get-out from that arm angle you spoke of and strikes out a lot of guys with normally good command.
Again, Sherrill. I don't know if a RH Sherrill can succeed in the bigs, but man, I'd sure give him a long look. The fact that he was bogarted by the Yanks but never used is not a proper assessment. They don't value minimum-wage contributors.
We should.
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