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Whatever amigos think of his math, or whatever, we've all got to give it up for him in terms of his feel for the panorama of baseball history...
James for 30-40 years has watched Royals (and other) teenage pitchers come up and get hurt, and his resolved opinion is that they get hurt mostly because they are throwers, not pitchers... Give him a kid who can hit spots, who is pitching when very young, and he likes the chances to stay healthy much better when they're polished, at a young age...
Worth consideration IMHO...
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At the same time, Pineda did have to be shut down after 50 IP, so a Mark Lowe conversion the next thing we hear, will surprise exactly nobody...