Jake McGee starts tonight in Charlotte

"Recent addition to the Stone Crabs roster Jake McGee (0-0, --) will make his first start of the season"

Oddly enough, it's against the same pitcher Kazmir made his high-A rehab start against.

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Well that's fantastic. Hopefully we'll get some reports of velocity.

Tools Whore

by Tyler on Jul 18, 2009 1:56 PM EDT reply actions

this

I really want to know how his arm is after that surgery

I could be wrong though

by staplemaniac on Jul 18, 2009 6:35 PM EDT up reply actions

Velocity can take a while to come back

Probably won’t be back to normal until next year.

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by Brickhaus on Jul 18, 2009 8:04 PM EDT up reply actions

Huge McGee fan

hopefully he deals!

by reachin on Jul 18, 2009 2:39 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

I got a signed McGee ball of of eBay 2 years back for 50 cents.

Because the idiot listed it as Jake McGhee

w00t

by Doug09 on Jul 18, 2009 4:02 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

ooh, nice.

by yeseggs on Jul 18, 2009 4:17 PM EDT up reply actions

Wow

The ball alone is worth 10 bucks prolly

by raysrule44 on Jul 18, 2009 6:01 PM EDT reply actions

Why are the Rays still considering McGee as a starter?

I think we have plenty of them and Jake would be a damn good reliever IMO. Another guy that should be in the pen is Aneury Rodriguez. Isn’t it better for the arm?

by raysrule44 on Jul 18, 2009 6:03 PM EDT up reply actions

While we do have a lot of depth

McGee could be better than most of them. Probably won’t but no reason to move him to the BP yet.

I could be wrong though

by staplemaniac on Jul 18, 2009 6:37 PM EDT up reply actions

I would bet they do see him in the pen.

It makes more sense to start him in the minors to give him more innings to work on his stuff. He can easily be moved to the bullpen a month or two before they call him up.

Jeter Sucks.

by PriceMultiCyYoungs on Jul 18, 2009 6:52 PM EDT up reply actions

Yes and no

I do think there’s some validity to moving someone to the pen earlier. Some guys take a lot of time to adjust to warming up and throwing at any given time.

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"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."

by Brickhaus on Jul 18, 2009 8:05 PM EDT up reply actions