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Kennedy On Track, Despite SI’s Red Flag
By Jeff Zachowski on February 5th, 2008 3:08 PM |
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Sick of Santana and Super Bowl coverage? Never fear, Yankee fans. As usual, the Journal News’ Peter Abraham is on the case, and today on his LoHud Yankees Blog, Pete’s got an interesting post about young pitchers and innings limits for this upcoming season.
Abraham directs his readers to an article by SI’s Tom Verducci in which the writer places Yanks’ prospect Ian Kennedy at the top of a list of seven pitchers who could be in for a rough ‘08 given the strain their young arms have endured.
According to Verducci, Kennedy could be at risk of injury due to the 165.1 innings that he tossed last season after throwing just 104.1 innings in 2006. Of course, Abraham is quick to point out that Kennedy participated in the Hawaii Winter League following the ‘06 season, and so actually threw 134.2 innings that season, putting him right on track for roughly 195 innings this upcoming season.
Nice catch, Pete. That should ease the minds of many troubled Yankee fans.
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This definitely makes me breathe a sigh of relief, because Kennedy’s my favorite of the three youngsters (I love finesse pitchers) and will surely be an integral piece of the puzzle this season. Good to see that article wasn’t a be-all.
I didn’t happen to read the original article and I’m still trying to discern Mr. Verducci’s point. It seems that he is pointing to an increase from one season to the next of approx. 61 innings. Well I would need to dissect this a bit more to comment. Ian Kennedy is a strong young man under the tutelage of some of the very best professional player development people on the planet and I trust them a bit more than old Tom. I look forward to a tremendous season from Ian, Phil and Joba. It is a fact though that many of these college pitchers are overworked and hurt their arms early on in their careers. Maybr his point is that an injury may be in the offing. The Yankees however are attune to this and will handle it the best that it can be managed.