March 18, 2008
A blessing and a curse could happen all at once for the Brewers. Yesterday, Chris Capuano was pulled from the game he was pitching in as he complained about soreness in his pitching arm. He will sit down for a few days and have some xrays taken to see if he has a real problem. In the meantime we all sit here and know what the real problem is. This dude can't pitch anymore!
The blessing in this scenerio is that if Cappy can't pitch Yost will be forced to have one of the younger guys step in and take his place. Cue Manny Parra. The Brewers have been trying to limit Parra's pitching so as to not blow his arm out at a young age. I say get the best pitchers in there and have them do their work. Parra has proven this preseason to be more than capable of performing and the fact that he's a lefty is not lost by anyone on the team. With Cappy out of the picture I see the rotation being Sheets, Gallardo, Suppan, Villanueva, Vargas/Parra. Bush goes to the pen and we probably start looking harder at McClung after his solid spring.
The only downside to this Capuano injury is that he may now be totally untradeable if he's injured. That means the Brewers would have to put him on the DL, pay him, and most likely send him to the minors when he gets healthy. Maybe he can work his way back up from there or at least prove himself worthy of a trade for Johnny Estrada's soul patch trimmings.
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