Arnie Munoz in the Dominican League.

[santo=dorf]

From rotoworld:

Anrie Munoz worked two scoreless innings yesterday and hasn't allowed an earned run in 5 1/3 innings in the Dominican Winter League.
He fanned seven and walked just one. Munoz is expected to compete with Neal Cotts and Kevin Walker for one or two spots in next year's pen. He'll probably return to Triple-A for at least a month or two

I would like to see Arnie earn a spot in the bullpen for next year.

[SoxFanTillDeath]

I'm with you there. I liked the kid while he was up in the majors, though I did notice that he tended to struggle early then settle down. Isn't that the worst possible thing that you could have from a reliever?

[DrCrawdad]

Originally Posted by SoxFanTillDeath

I'm with you there. I liked the kid while he was up in the majors, though I did notice that he tended to struggle early then settle down. Isn't that the worst possible thing that you could have from a reliever?

I just looked over Arnie's game stats. What jumped out at me was that Arnie had two horrible outings, his first and his last. IF (big and impossible if) you lop off the first and last outings, here are his stats...

11 IP 6 HITS 2 ER 0 HR 8 BB 8 K

That looks pretty good to me.

Here's what he did in his first and last outings...
3.1 IP 14 HITS 14 ER 4 HR 4 BB 3 K

[MHOUSE]

I remember he got lit up in his debut as a starter and then was pretty good out of the bullpen. I don't remember his last outing, but 0.1 IP and 3 ER will mess up your stats. If he does well in ST then let his try to earn a spot as the other lefty next to Marte.

[Infallible]

I'm not trying to be mean here, but the kid has a creme puff arm. He can't throw with enough velocity nor with enough movement to be effective. He may be young, but I'm not seeing anything promising out of him except that he has the ability to throw strikes, strikes unfortunately get bounced out of the ball park time after time.

[spanishwhite]

Originally Posted by DrCrawdad

I just looked over Arnie's game stats. What jumped out at me was that Arnie had two horrible outings, his first and his last. IF (big and impossible if) you lop off the first and last outings, here are his stats...

11 IP 6 HITS 2 ER 0 HR 8 BB 8 K

That looks pretty good to me.

Here's what he did in his first and last outings...
3.1 IP 14 HITS 14 ER 4 HR 4 BB 3 K

Actually, just take out his only start b/c his
future in baseball is a reliever and I believe

11.1 IP 5 ER 3.97 ERA

That is still good and considering that Arnie is 22,
I think some people should give him some slack.

[ND_Sox_Fan]

Originally Posted by Infallible

I'm not trying to be mean here, but the kid has a creme puff arm. He can't throw with enough velocity nor with enough movement to be effective. He may be young, but I'm not seeing anything promising out of him except that he has the ability to throw strikes, strikes unfortunately get bounced out of the ball park time after time.

How many successful years has Jamie Moyer had in the majors? He is working on his 19th year.

Lighting up the radar gun does not mean success or failure unless a pitcher's only means of past success is blowing hitters away (see Koch, Billy).

If the guy can get people out, it doesn't matter if he can break a pane of glass with a fastball or not.

[Tekijawa]

I think he put up simmilar numbers last year in the winter league, That's why I was excited to see his first game up... that is until it started!

[SoxxoS]

Obviously, he tends to have the big inning...and his big inning takes you right out of the ballgame...so he needs to be in AAA and have prolonged success before he is up again, IMO.

[rdivaldi]

Originally Posted by SoxxoS

Obviously, he tends to have the big inning...and his big inning takes you right out of the ballgame...so he needs to be in AAA and have prolonged success before he is up again, IMO.

Arnie's already proven that he can pitch at all levels (as a reliever) in the minors. I think he's going to be given every opportunity to compete with Cotts for the left handed specialist slot in the bullpen. If anything Arnie is still extremely young, so he'll get a couple of years to crack the roster on the big club.

[Infallible]

Originally Posted by ND_Sox_Fan

How many successful years has Jamie Moyer had in the majors? He is working on his 19th year.

Lighting up the radar gun does not mean success or failure unless a pitcher's only means of past success is blowing hitters away (see Koch, Billy).

If the guy can get people out, it doesn't matter if he can break a pane of glass with a fastball or not.

So Arnie Munoz is the next Jamie Moyer huh? Right And how long did it take for Moyer to get his act together? How many other big league pitchers besides Jamie Moyer have a good go at it with similar capabilities? Is it every single one that gets drafted? Is it every other one? Sorry but until Arnie pulls it together I won't be hanging onto the edge of my bar stool waiting to woop for joy as he takes the mound.

[bigdommer]

Originally Posted by Infallible

So Arnie Munoz is the next Jamie Moyer huh? Right And how long did it take for Moyer to get his act together? How many other big league pitchers besides Jamie Moyer have a good go at it with similar capabilities? Is it every single one that gets drafted? Is it every other one? Sorry but until Arnie pulls it together I won't be hanging onto the edge of my bar stool waiting to woop for joy as he takes the mound.

Moyer, Glavine, Wells, Lieter, Milton, Odalis Perez, Mike Hampton, Zito...all good to great LHP's that don't have the arm to blow it by you.

[jordan23ventura]

Originally Posted by SoxxoS

Obviously, he tends to have the big inning...and his big inning takes you right out of the ballgame...so he needs to be in AAA and have prolonged success before he is up again, IMO.

I'd actually like to see Munoz beat out Cotts and have Neal go to AAA to learn how to start. I'm still convinced Cotts can be a good ML starter if he had another pitch and I feel that Arnie would be more of a career reliever if he could make it and stay.

[FedEx227]

Yeah, Arnie looks more like a reliever, while Cotts was born to be a starter...

but yeah Cotts needs more than a fastball.

[Infallible]

Originally Posted by bigdommer

Moyer, Glavine, Wells, Lieter, Milton, Odalis Perez, Mike Hampton, Zito...all good to great LHP's that don't have the arm to blow it by you.

You're talking about 8 lefties out of how many LEAGUE WIDE? And none of them are even from the same year of draft. Come on man, I'm just trying to be realistic, I hope the kid does well as any of us do, but he's got to get more movement and better placement with that arm of his.