my name and Luebke's success coming in the same post. I agree on expecting any of the young arms to produce at the level that Luebke has early on. To be fair, Luebke's numbers would put him amongst the top 5 or 10 starters in the game, so it's not really fair to expect him to post such robust numbers over a 200 inning workload. Only one starter that threw 100+ innings struck out a higher percentage of batters than Luebke did in all of baseball last year. I have high expectations, but not that high.

All these guys are in a similar boat to me, capable of being #2 type starters, with a varying degree of assistance from their home park. I've already touched on the things Kelly has in his favor over Erlin/Wieland, despite lesser minor league numbers that I think bodes well for his future.

I think what Alan was suggesting was two of the three developing into more then quality starters, ala Luebke, and not a #3/4 type that many expected initially. Guys you wouldn't fault the team for locking up early in their careers.

Nice to see both Luebke and Volquez bounce back after poor first innings. It's too bad Volquez doesn't have better command, with his stuff he'd be a legit TOR starter. His stuff and Latos is comparable, but boy, after two starts it's sure made Latos' greatest strength, his ability to throw a lot of strikes with an above-average ability to locate his stuff at such an early age, really stand out.

Pretty excited to see how Keyvius Sampson fares in AA this year and am glad they had him skip a level. Makes their collection of arms at AA/AAA that much stronger.