Hudson making first start since June of 2012

[PDXChris]

Interesting! With Corbin coming back in under a month, it will interesting to see what the plans are.

 

[82CardsGrad]

Guess that's why they sent Dorn back down and will be calling up another pitcher...

 

[TJ]

This is awesome.

Hopefully, he can still hit the ball. He hit .277 in 2011, last time he made it through a whole season.

 

[AZ Native]

This is awesome.

Hopefully, he can still hit the ball. He hit .277 in 2011, last time he made it through a whole season.

Cool. He can pinch hit for Ahmed when he's not pitching.

 

[Iceman]

Have to admit, the pitching has been above my expectations so far.

 

[unseenaz]

I don't think this is a permanent thing. Hale said He planned on doing a start by bullpen commity tonight

 

[BC867]

I don't think this is a permanent thing. Hale said He planned on doing a start by bullpen committee tonight

Exactly, and what a job they did. I held my breath during the 9th with Reed, but he finally came through.

Was his string of disappointing performances because of so few save opportunities to get in the groove? A lot of us have hoped that he would be replaced.

 

[Phrazbit]

Exactly, and what a job they did. I held my breath during the 9th with Reed, but he finally came through.

Was his string of disappointing performances because of so few save opportunities to get in the groove? A lot of us have hoped that he would be replaced.

He has a 4.21 career ERA, so assuming he only pitches one inning per appearance, pretty much a run every other game, and a lot of blown saves when trying to preserve one run leads. The only decent year of his career was a 3.78 ERA, 40 saves but a whopping 8 blown saves.

He does not have the stuff to be a lock down closer. Control issues and he does not have an out pitch. He is another example of Towers inability to see the forest through the trees. Pursued this guy because he "needed" a close and Reed had of a decent amount of total saves, but ignored the frightening ERA, WHIP and blown save numbers.