Let's see...the Reds have the following pitchers in their early 20s:
Mike Leake (22), Aroldis Chapman (22), Homer Bailey (23), Johnny Cueto (24).
Their manager is Dusty Baker, who has made a career of burning out the arms of young pitchers (Mark Prior, Kerry Wood, Russ Ortiz and Edinson Volquez are four good examples).
After seeing Cueto labor around the field after misplayed a slow-roller tonight against the Cardinals, I was shocked to see that Dusty and his trainer didn't even go out to check on their talented young right-hander. Apparently they weren't worried at all.
For the Reds' sake and Cueto's sake, I hope Dusty was right and that Cueto is alright but imagine if it was a reoccurrence of the back injury he suffered in spring training and it caused him to alter his motion to compensate and he hurt his arm in the process. I'm frightened just thinking about it. Seeing this spectacle only reinforced my view that the best thing that can happen to the Reds and their numerous high-ceiling young arms would be a 10-24 start that leads to Dusty being fired immediately.
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