Baseball's Prospectus - Josh Lindblom A Disappointment- Really?

Yea, labeling Lindblom as “disappointing” doesn’t make any sense. His K:BB ratio is great and his FIP is fantastic.

The big thing for me is he’s coverting back from being a closer in college. Even in the Midwest League last year (which he dominated), he wasn’t being stretched out too much. So this is really his first year as a dedicated starter since his early college days.

I didn’t read the prospectus, but it does come as a surprise to me. I don’t go for all these newfangled stats and abbreviations you use, but I can tell you the guy looks like he’s ready to be on the roster. Lindblom looked really good for a first year player visiting a major league camp this spring. That’s not to say he’s a finished product, but he looks like his education is about ready to advance to the school of hard knocks. I expect the Dodgers are going to continue to not let him eat too many innings. He’ll probably be up before september if kuo doesn’t come back and all the middle relievers continue to struggle. His reliever experience will work well for him, as they’ll probably use him that way for a couple years before stretching him out.

For all the press Gordon gets, he doesn’t look close to ready to me. I was a little perplexed by the pre-season hype of him battling for the starting job (when furcal was unsigned). Perhaps it is just that the Dodgers spend so few early picks on hitters so one has to dig to find the minor league hitters that are doing well for the Dodgers from the start.

Martin does look pretty good. The Dodger scouts have been extremely impressive the last 10 years profiling out starting pitchers. Martin looks like another one of these guys that will hit the majors within 3 years and then have mixed success as he struggles to figure things out for a few years…same mold as jackson, billingsley, kershaw, elbert, mcdonald…