Location. Location. Location.
OK, I Shouted this, but maybe it's better as a Post, for all to comment on, scoff at, or ignore.
Matty beat me by miles to the whole Haniger thing, but I beat him by a bit to the Andrew Moore bandwagon. G's in, too. Doc, ditto. Heck, almost all of us.
Moore was great again for Tacoma last night. Matty said, "Give him the cal!"
I followed with the stuff below: Chew away.
With you Matt. I've been all in on Moore since last season. Heck, I didn't think there was really anything for him to learn at AAA that he didn't already know or have. I'm also pointing out that we've got someting pretty nice in Gaviglio. His career AAA line of 1.24 WHIP, 8.8 H/9, 2.4 BB/6.6 K/9 has translated to 1.21, 8.4, 2.5 and 5.9. He's not smoke & mirroring it, either. He stays in control, pounds the edges, and doesn't buckle. He's giving up 1.9 HR/9, but he's been a rock in 4 of his 5 starts. In those 4 starts, he's thrown 22 innings, allowing 19 hits and just 3 ER's. I've said that Gallardo was going to get lapped by Moore this season and now he's been lapped by Gaviglio, too. Bergman's better right now, too. He was creamed in one start, but has been nails recently, otherwise: 25 innings, 17 hits, 3 ER's. Gallardo is scheduled up on the 12th and Bergman the 13th, but Moore wouldn't throw until the 14th, which is Gaviglio's start. You could move Bergman and Gaviglio up a day each...or you look to the 17th in Texas to let Moore bump Gallardo (or the 22nd at home vs. Detroit).
Hey, I'm kind of to the point where I'm not concerned with Kuma getting back. Smyly? Completely off my radar right now ((If he's after the All-Star break, then he's 40+ games away) Felix? Hey, I know it is sacrilegious to say so, but he got beat up in 5 of his last seven starts last season and 3 of five this. He's the King, but he comes back as a #3 and some precocious young guys, out of the Kuma-at-his-best template, nipping at his heels. And then there is Neidert, arriving at a theater near you sometime next summer. If I am Dipoto, I'm shopping Gallardo right now. Somebody is frantic for pitching. He was innings insurance and it looks like we've found all those innings elsewhere. And better ones, too. Well maybe I stick him as a long man until I see if Felix can still eephus-dry spitter guys out.
But promising arms? We've got 'em.