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Yovani Gallardo coming up-Role TBD (1 Viewer)

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Gallardo coming up-Role TBD, Capuano to the DL

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06/14/2007 12:11 PM ET

Brewers to promote top prospect

Gallardo to get the call; lefty Capuano poised for DL stint

By Adam McCalvy / MLB.com

http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com/ne...t=.jsp&c_id=mil

Yovani Gallardo's last start for Nashville was on Tuesday, so he will go to the Brewers bullpen. (AP)

DETROIT -- The Brewers were poised on Thursday morning to promote top pitching prospect Yovani Gallardo to replace left-hander Chris Capuano, who was expected to go on the disabled list with a strained left groin.

Any roster move would be made later in the day, assistant general manager Gord Ash said.

Gallardo, 21, is 8-3 with a 2.90 ERA in 13 starts for Triple-A Nashville, and he leads all of Minor League Baseball with 110 strikeouts. If the Brewers can avoid using him out of the bullpen this weekend in Minnesota, Gallardo would make his Major League debut Monday against the San Francisco Giants at Miller Park.

Capuano was scratched minutes before his scheduled start Wednesday night in Detroit when he felt tightness in his groin. Carlos Villanueva made the emergency start and provided five bullpen-saving innings, setting-up the Brewers for a comeback win over the Tigers.

Because he threw 77 pitches -- 33 more than his previous season-high -- Villanueva will not be available until the Brewers return home next Monday to face the Giants. Gallardo last started for Nashville on Tuesday, so he will go to the Brewers bullpen and could be available if needed Saturday or Sunday in Minnesota, manager Ned Yost said.

If Gallardo pitches in relief, Villanueva would make the Monday start against San Francisco.

The 23-year-old Villanueva has flourished since earning a spot in the bullpen out of Spring Training. Including Wednesday's no-decision, he is 5-0 with a 2.87 ERA in 27 games.

Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

 
Pick him up in all formats if he's available and hope he starts monday. Sheets is scheduled to pitch Tuesday so that's is only window. The question is if he comes in as a middle relief this weekend.

I screwed up and cut him last week! :eek:

 
I dropped Brett Myers for him....it was reported that Myers is going to miss at least another 2 weeks and my closers are solid.

Here's to Yovani tearing it up :rolleyes:

 
I wish I could put him in my lineup.

I've been stashing him as my only minors player all year (on a 5 man bench).

We put in our lineups on Tuesdays.

As a Capuano owner, I was seriously hoiing for a Sheet's breakdown or a Bush meltdown.

Bittersweet.

I am hoping for a Lirano run, since I can't use his ML debut.

 
A little over an hour till he makes his debut!

Here's hoping those weeks stashed on my roster will be well worth it!

 
It looks like he is having a good night so far.

6IP, 3H, 1ER, 2BB, 4K.

Also, 1 for 2 with an RBI at the plate. I wish I had him in my big money league.

 
From Rototimes...

The Brewers are thinking about keeping Yovani Gallardo in the majors but moving him to the bullpen. They need to open up a rotation spot when Chris Capuano comes off the DL next week. "If we had our druthers, we'd rather have (Gallardo) be a starter," manager Ned Yost tells the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. "But, then again, there's some conventional wisdom behind the fact that if we keep Gallardo up here and use him as a long (reliever), limit his innings through July and August, if anything happened, we'd have a quality starter ready to step in."

 
I think it's the smart play by the Brewers. Look at how Liriano turned out last year, along with some of the other younger pitchers who hit the wall in August/September as the innings piled up. The Brewers should walk away with the NL Central, and I'm sure they'd rather have a fresh Gallardo who could step into the rotation in September/post-season than to use him up during the season only to not have him fully available come playoff time.

 
BoomBoom said:
I think it's the smart play by the Brewers. Look at how Liriano turned out last year, along with some of the other younger pitchers who hit the wall in August/September as the innings piled up. The Brewers should walk away with the NL Central, and I'm sure they'd rather have a fresh Gallardo who could step into the rotation in September/post-season than to use him up during the season only to not have him fully available come playoff time.
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He'll still have some very good value in roto leagues. i imagine he will be pitching a lot of scoreless innings in 1-2 inning chunks before getting back to the rotation late in the year?
 
snitwitch said:
BoomBoom said:
I think it's the smart play by the Brewers. Look at how Liriano turned out last year, along with some of the other younger pitchers who hit the wall in August/September as the innings piled up. The Brewers should walk away with the NL Central, and I'm sure they'd rather have a fresh Gallardo who could step into the rotation in September/post-season than to use him up during the season only to not have him fully available come playoff time.
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He'll still have some very good value in roto leagues. i imagine he will be pitching a lot of scoreless innings in 1-2 inning chunks before getting back to the rotation late in the year?
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Definitely good value, and he should be able to do very well considering batters will probably only get one look at him per game (vs. multiple looks as a starter). Those 1-2 IP, 0 ER, 2-3 K performances add up...
 
BoomBoom said:
I think it's the smart play by the Brewers. Look at how Liriano turned out last year, along with some of the other younger pitchers who hit the wall in August/September as the innings piled up. The Brewers should walk away with the NL Central, and I'm sure they'd rather have a fresh Gallardo who could step into the rotation in September/post-season than to use him up during the season only to not have him fully available come playoff time.
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:thumbup: Horrible comparsion.Verlander would have been a better comparsion, where as he weared down a little later in the year.Yost is an idiot running a darn good ballteam.Weaver threw all year. Verlander. Reyes. Reyes was money is the WS.These guys are professional pitchers. They don't need to be catered and babied.Play your best guy, and win now.As for Liriano, if you every watched him pitch, it was the slider he threw that taxed his arm. He had so much torque on that elbow/forearm that made that slider nasty. He was hurt, the Twins were in the playoff hunt and brought him back too soon. They wanted him to stop throwing the slider until his strength was back, but he didn't listen and injured himself even worse.
 
4 minutes prior to lineup submission this week, I subbed in Marcum for Gallardo. Yesterday I was kicking myself after Marcum got shelled. I am feeling much better today, thank you.

 
Jennings 11 ER performance last week and Gallardo's tonight has probably added at least .5 onto my season total for ERA and WHIP.

I would probably need 3 no hitters to offset the damage.

 
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