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Originally Posted by MorseMoose
see, santana = amazing; but liriano = surprising.
I figured Liriano was going to be the #1 in the Pierzynski deal, but I didn't know he was going to be THIS good. I just hope he can stay healthy and he can be the #1 in the Pierzynski deal. It was good to see him fill out his spot, I think and hope he can do it in '07.
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We still don't know he's going to be THAT good. He certainly got off to a great start, and his peripherals indicate he wasn't just lucky getting there, but right now he's thrown fewer than 150 innings in the majors and already has a bum elbow on his throwing arm. That fits the profile of a lot of promising young pitchers who never really had good careers. I hope his elbow problems don't sidetrack his career, for baseball's sake, but if there's something fundamentally wrong with his mechanics that's causing his elbow problems, then he's going to have a tough time consistently performing at the level he was this season.