Allen Webster

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Pitched two innings today vs the Blue Jays. Gave up a run but struck out Bautista, arencibia, encarnacion and lawrie, each swinging and twice hit 99mph on the stadium gun.

Should be fun watching this kid pitch this year. With de la rosa being limited to 100ip, Webster may be the call up spot starter in the second half of the year.
 

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3 more K's for Webster in today's Grapefruit League game against the Jays.  It took him 3 IP to get them, but in those three innings he threw 19 pitches... all for strikes!  It helped that the Jays hitters (including Lars, twice) swung at literally every pitch.  Part of me suspects the Jays were just hacking away to get the game over with.  Does anyone who saw the game in person have insight?
 

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GRPhilipp said:
3 more K's for Webster in today's Grapefruit League game against the Jays.  It took him 3 IP to get them, but in those three innings he threw 19 pitches... all for strikes!  It helped that the Jays hitters (including Lars, twice) swung at literally every pitch.  Part of me suspects the Jays were just hacking away to get the game over with.  Does anyone who saw the game in person have insight?
Let me guess: you watched on Gameday? The pitches aren't accurate in the spring. 
 

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nvalvo said:
Let me guess: you watched on Gameday? The pitches aren't accurate in the spring. 
 
I was wondering about that.  Do they get the numbers of balls and strikes right or is it all garbage?
 

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GRPhilipp said:
 
I was wondering about that.  Do they get the numbers of balls and strikes right or is it all garbage?
In the past in spring, every K was listed as 0-3 and every BB as 4-0 which obviously messes up pitch counts. Dunno if that's changed.
 

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Right. This means that any pitcher who issues zero walks will be shown to have thrown zero balls. It causes confusion every year. 
 

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Webster ahs probably moved ahead of Rubby in terms of who can help the big club this year. and that is not becasue Rubby's done anything to sour them. I think Webster has surprised to the upside.
 
This is the most power arms the Sox have had at the ML/AAA level in a long time it seems.
 

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Clears Cleaver said:
Webster ahs probably moved ahead of Rubby in terms of who can help the big club this year. and that is not becasue Rubby's done anything to sour them. I think Webster has surprised to the upside.
 
This is the most power arms the Sox have had at the ML/AAA level in a long time it seems.
 
See also this:
 
http://www.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/red-sox/alex-speier/2013/03/13/why-red-sox-prospect-allen-webster-may-be-pois
 
If Webster and De la Rosa reach something nearing their ceiling, that may go down as the single most franchise altering trade in Red Sox history. Sales included.
 

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Rasputin said:
See also this:
 
http://www.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/red-sox/alex-speier/2013/03/13/why-red-sox-prospect-allen-webster-may-be-pois
 
If Webster and De la Rosa reach something nearing their ceiling, that may go down as the single most franchise altering trade in Red Sox history. Sales included.
 
Thanks for that link!
 
It's interesting stuff, and Speier is just the best. I like the way he actually writes about baseball, which you would think would be what baseball writers do, but so few of them actually do. He goes into the details of the specific adjustments Webster is making, with direct quotes from Nieves. That's probably going to be interesting to people who like baseball, especially pitching. (If the same story was written by one of the other hacks, they would have left all that out and replaced it maybe with some contrived "heartwarming" story about Webster's upbringing, or tried to provoke him into saying something controversial, or maybe tried to turn Webster's good spring into a controversy. "Who should get dumped from the rotation to make room for the next superstar, Allen Webster?")
 
Anyway, it's great to see Webster showing command and looking so good. That trade would have been tremendous even if Webster and De La Rosa were left out of it. To get them both is just nuts, it's transformed our big league roster and the top of our minor league roster. (We should have kept Sands too, but that's a topic for another thread.)
 

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On the 2014 season, Webster is 4-4 over 104.0 with a 2.86 era and 1.21 whip from 88 hits and 38 walks while striking out 87. 
 
He had a bit of a hot streak in May but looking at his game logs doesn't give you the sense of a great change ongoing.  His K's per 9 are down but his walks are also down a bit.   
 
I have no idea what's going on with this guy, what he's working on and how the coaches feel about his progress.  I just thought it was kind of odd that he's so under the radar.