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Whoa.. a lot of Fister material here.
Doc, you're going to have explain to me how Fister has a "55" fastball and French's is a "minus-minus" fastball.  These guys throw nearly exactly the same velocity and French is a lefty with less horizontal movement but better life on the heater. Both have slightly below-average fastballs.
I only got to see the first couple of innings, but my initial take was actually that the fastball is worse than advertised (88mph with no real sink?) and the curve is better than advertised (did a good job getting called strikes).
Even so, Fister has a fringe arsenal all around. Whether he develops into a #4-5 SP or not will depend ALL on command and pitchability. Thats something thats going to be really difficult to get a handle on until we get to see several starts.