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Connect Four!

too much pressure on too young of a guy. His long term future as a starter takes precedent over any benefit he could give us this season.

Do not bring up Feliz this year at all. I don’t care if we miss out by one game I don’t want to see the kid up here this year. If this club as constructed can get that close this year then it only bodes well for us in the future. But that future includes Feliz. And I damn sure don’t want to rush that kid and risk messing him up for the long run for this season.

at least until i go to the game on saturday the 16th. i want a chance to see him pitch (if it ends up being his start…please let it be)

Let’s not fool ourselves and risk ruining our best internal pitcher.

it’s very easy to say “no way in hell!” from where we stand now because the general feeling is that we have very little shot of making the playoffs and perhaps even less of a chance of doing anything in them, but if a realistic playoff run were dangled tantalizingly close to us itd be very tempting to want feliz up here a la K-Rod in 02.

that you can ruin a young pitcher by bringing them up to early….much like an NFL QB starting too early. I think that if you have the stuff and control, you are either going to be succesful or not at some point.

For the guys that come up and struggle, and never turn out to be anything…who is to say they ever would have been anything

Let’s look at him as a good cautionary tale. He was brought up from AA at age 21, was pretty dang good and blew out his arm, never to fully recover…

http://minors.baseball-reference.com/players.cgi?pid=21797

On Feliz, I’d rather err on the side of caution.

If Eddie can’t hack the Closer spot, then we know what we need to get in the Winter…Keep Feliz in Frisco and/or shut his ass down.

the 40 trumps all.

To bring up Feliz for a very small chance at a playoff run, to pitch out of the bullpen, knowing full well he’d be in AA/AAA all next year, if not through part of 2010, would needlessly tie up a spot on the 40. With the addition of Hunter last week, we’re already caught in a tough spot this offseason.

this fall, it will be Thomas Diamond.

From one perspective, every year you don’t bring him up shortens a 20 year HOF career by a year (did I just say that ??). From another, don’t wreck your superexotic car before you get it out of the dealership lot.

I don’t see any need to bring Feliz up now or the rest of this season, maybe a September look to flame some far fervor. And don’t push him to more innings than is reasonable for right now, either. I’ll wait. He’ll show up.

for a second I thought this was suggesting bringing him up to start, which would be a “nooooooooooo”.

but… a september callup to pitch a few innings out of the pen? i probably wouldnt do it, but there have been worse ideas.

1st he loses the J in his name and now he’s writing fluff pieces.

BTW:

I’m not advocating the idea of moving Feliz into the Rangers bullpen right now.

isnt the whole piece an advocation of moving feliz to the majors and then he says he’s not advocating it? not a well written finish up to the article, IMHO

work on his secondary pitches more before coming up. i’d hate for him to ditch any pitch that may not be big league ready, and then try to revive it over the offseason.

This guy is currently having the game of his life. he has now started off his pirate career with 13 straight shutout innings, and today he is currently working a perfect game through 7, with going 2-3 at the plate.

Just a heads up.

I went to the RR game (8/2) here against the missions to see the guy pitch. I think this must have been his worst outing so far in AA. He was all over the place and fell behind just about every hitter 2-0 most of the time and 1-0 the rest of the time. He showed flashes with his fast ball here and there when he could locate it on occasion. He worked mostly 89-93 and hit 95 occasionally. I think the radar was also messed up since it only showed pitch speeds once in a while. I believe he only made it through 3 and walked 3 or 4 with 0 ER. His defense bailed him out a few times too. I like Feliz but tap the brakes a little bit. He only has a handful of starts at the AA level. Beau Jones came in to relieve Feliz and was really solid throughout. He did give up a solo shot to left center but after that he settle down and pitched really well.