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Joe Burke
Starting Pitcher | Free Agents
Pitching He keeps the ball down and gets a lot of groundballs. The Free Agents hope he can work on his control a little bit. Every once and a while one slips away from him and either ends up at the backstop or in the right field bleachers. Sometimes I wish he'd just give up on throwing the changeup, it's like a BP ball! You know, some times I think I can throw harder than Burke, and that's saying a lot. He's almost as effective against lefthanders as he is versus righthanders.
Defense & Hitting He never has controlled the running game. Burke never has been a good fielder. Burke is a surpisingly good hitting pitcher. And I'm not sure you can say this about a pitcher, but Burke has some pop in his swing. Interesting sidenote, The Free Agents have been known to use Burke as a pinch-runner on occasion.
2014 Outlook I just don't know if The Free Agents are ever going to get what they expect out of him.
-- Moostard Nyman
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