{"id":4462,"date":"2012-09-10T17:34:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T21:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=4462"},"modified":"2012-09-11T10:20:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T14:20:08","slug":"syracuseaaa-pitching-staff-year-in-review-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=4462","title":{"rendered":"Syracuse\/AAA Pitching Staff Year in Review; 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Free John Lannan! Photo Luis M. Alvarez\/AP<\/p><\/div>\n

Click here for the 2011 version<\/a> of this post.<\/p>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

This is the first of 6 organizational reviews of the pitching staffs of our various affiliates for the 2012 season.\u00a0 Unlike in 2011, I didn’t follow nearly as closely as I would have liked, so a lot of this is “analysis in arrears.”\u00a0 This is also a lot of “scouting the scoreline,” which isn’t always a fair way to evaluate pitchers, but a full year’s worth of work is also a big enough sample size to pass some judgement.\u00a0 I’ll try to evaluate pitchers at the level at which they spent the most time and will offer guesses for next season.\u00a0 Also, rehab appearances are not mentioned or given analysis in these posts.\u00a0 After reviewing all the staffs at each level, I’ll cull the above predictions into a summarized 2013 projected staff throughout the system.<\/p>\n

Syracuse starters<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 The rotation started the season with Atkins, Roark, Maya, Lannan and Duke.\u00a0 This wasn’t exactly the way these guys would have lined up 1-5 (since Lannan was dumped to the AAA roster at the end of Spring Training unexpectedly) but this is the order in which they appeared to start the season.\u00a0 Lets talk about these 5 guys plus other prominent starters for the year.<\/p>\n