Jeff Karstens to Join Bullpen
by Charlie Wilmoth on May 10, 2010 1:53 AM EDT
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Russell praised Karstens' effectiveness in two of three starts -- including six scoreless innings Saturday against St. Louis -- but said management looked at Ross Ohlendorf's return tonight and an off-day coming Thursday and decided it would take too long to get Karstens back on the mound as a starter.
I'd like to second Russell here--this last week or two of baseball would have been a lot worse if Karstens and Brian Burres had done what we might have expected them to do. Instead, Karstens had two good starts out of three (the ones against the Cards and Brewers), and Burres had two terrific starts (against the Cubs and Dodgers), and the Pirates won all four of those games. Their peripherals and stuff suggest that neither of them can stay good for long, but in the past couple of weeks, Karstens and Burres have been unlikely heroes, and I give them credit.
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Nice work from Burres and Karstens the past couple of weeks.
It would be nice if Brian Bass’s 100th career MLB game the other day is his last in a Bucco uniform.
Let’s take this next series and stay within shouting distance of .500 for as long as possible, please.
I hate to see a guy go to the pen after a very nice start
seems like there should be a better option to sen dto the pen, like Duke or Morton
Just to note
A couple weeks ago, somewhere during the 7 game debacle, I noted that the 5th starters had been terrible out of all proportion with their true talent levels, and that this suggested that we were due for some better-than-TTL 5th starter performances. The retort was that this was a fallacy, and that they would instead pitch exactly as well as their TTLs from there on out.
Well, we’ve now gotten 4 stunningly strong starts from our 5th starters, and their numbers are looking a lot more like typical 5th starters than the worst group of 5th starters in ML history. Chalk one up for the law of averages.
And in non-self-congratulatory mode, kudos to Karstens, and may he prove effectiveish in the BP.
What I really wish is that we could somehow tandem start Burres and Karstens, such that, if it becomes apparent early that one of them doesn’t have it in a given game, he could be switched out before the damage is done. I understand all the reasons this wouldn’t work, but these guys have similar profiles, in that their stuff is inconsistently effective – sometimes Karstens’ FBs all land in the seats, sometimes they all land in gloves; sometimes Burres’ curves fool all the batters, sometimes they fool no one – and you just wish you could replace one with the other on an ad hoc basis (as opposed to using one as a long reliever once the other has shit the bed).
Hats off to Karstens
He did a good job in his starts, but I’m excited to see Ohlie back on the mound. Hopefully he can put together a string of strong performances. Id like to see us win this series and keep close to .500
to bad for Emeror Karstens
but at least he is not going down to AAA
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If Morton hadn’t rebounded in his last start, I would have said Morton has to be removed. It’s a nice problem to have right now.
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