Monday, May 19, 2014

Banuelos May Be Headed To DL w/ Arm Fatigue

And another one down and another one down, another one bites the dust. One of the Yankees top pitching prospects Manny Banuelos may be headed to the disabled list with fatigue and soreness in his arm. The Yankees pitcher has not pitched for two seasons after Tommy John surgery so the fatigue is understandable, why the Yankees continue to baby him is not though.

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  1. I've always been excited about this guy's stuff. Perhaps it's time to convert him into a reliever though. He seems to have durability issues. Maybe because of his size.

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    1. Seems a bit early, no? He's only 23 years old and it's not like he has a laundry list of arm issues. He had the Tommy John surgery that every other pitcher is back from in 12 months, not his fault the Yankees kept him out two full seasons basically. Of course he has arm fatigue, the Yankees coddle him.

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    2. Well here's my opinion.(For what it's worth) First of all, the guy is small. I agree that he had dominate stuff when healthy. I see durability issues long term because a 155 pound guy isn't designed to throw upper 90's for 8 innings. 1-2 maybe. Second, you're right. He is being coddled. Not so much coddled, but held back by the Yankee brass. The Yankees are the worst organization in baseball to be a prospect in under Cashman's tenure. A prospect is 26 or so before they get a legit shot.

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    3. Sure he is small but it's not like he would be the first to have a prolonged career with a small frame. Pedro Martinez comes to mind, Tim Lincecum is another. Sure the list is smaller than the list of failed smaller framed guys, probably by a lot, but if handled and brought along correctly it could easily be done.

      Banuelos isn't the guy that is going to throw 99 MPH, he is more of a control guy whose out pitch is a changeup. Think more Johan Santana and less Pedro Martinez. He just needs to be brought along, not shun to the minors. When he destroyed everybody they put in front of him that spring training three or four years ago he should have been in the bullpen/starting rotation then... not now.

      Oh well, Cashman can't live forever.

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    4. Good point. I just fear that they'll baby him for another 2 years and his drive to succeed will be thrown to the wayside. Kinda like Romine.

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  2. Jeff..
    Just think of the BP with he, Dillin, Warren and D-Rob as your top four guys, with ManBam being a lefty helps also because he gets right or leftys out. Add Vanditte to that mix, if he can cut it, would also make a much more versatile BP.
    Presupposing all of them would work out as well as I would want them to...it would be back to the old days of a six inning game again.
    Talk about being optimistic...wow!

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    1. Banuelos is too good to put in the pen right now. Betances was put in the pen because he got shelled as a starter for two seasons or longer and was on his final option (at the time). It was make or break for him, Banuelos still has all his minor league options and is a long way from being considered a reclamation project in the bullpen.

      Just my two pennies.

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    2. Well worth your two pennies too!
      I agree with both of you guys! He is a lefty that is a pitcher not a thrower! One sometimes forgets the many starters that have been on the smaller size and damn good.
      All these guys are off the top of my head (but I did check on them) and all under 6' tall; Whitey Ford 5'10", Guidry 5"11", Jack Chesbro 5'9", Clark Griffith 5'6", Claude Osteen 5'11", Bobby Shantz(?) and then the killer Carl Mays 5'11"! Chesbro, Mays and Griffith I remembered from an article I did on old time pitchers under 6'0" a few years ago.

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