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Originally Posted by Parallex
Yeah, Sanchez strikes me as a guy that will take a bigger hit then usual in the times through the order penalty. It isn't just that his secondaries are under-developed it's that his fastball is difficult to control. Give a guy a couple of looks at it and they can figure out when it's going to move out of the zone.
And in J.A. Happ's last 11 starts he looked like the best pitcher in baseball but I'm not going to put any money down on J.A. Happ winning the AL Cy Young next year. Beware small sample sizes they lead to far to much fan fiction
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J.A Happ, a 33 year old veteran, is a much different story than a young prospect making adjustments to his mechanics. Look at Roy Halladay - he had even more pronounced K/BB problems than Sanchez and they carried into his age 24 season. A simple arm angle fix turned him into one of the best pitchers in Jays history. Not saying that's what will happen with Sanchez, but the arm and stuff is similarly there. It's simply way too early to rule him out as a starting pitcher.