Forecasts for Fifteen: Zack Thornton

[Edgy MD]

There's more than one Zack/h on this roster, and I'm the one with an intact UCL. But the rest is a mystery. I'm the bounty for Ike Davis, so surely they liked something about me, but I showed none of the acuity with Las Vegas that I showed with the Buccos' AAA team in Indianapolis or wherever. Apart from that, I kinda look like a character actor.



The Mets didn't add me to the roster, and for the second straight year I survived the Rule V draft, so there's not a lot of faith out there that I can stick in a major league bullpen. But here it is. It's March 17 and I'm still hangin' round. What's it gonna be? Zach in Fifteen? I mean, surely I'll out-pitch the other guy, right?

[MFS62]

Possible call-up in September.
7 g, 12 IP, 13K, 1.28 WHIP.

Later

[Guest d'Kong76]

Won't even get a memories of Zack Thorton thread.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

One of the guys we got for Ike Davis, I'm predicting he goes out and does OK at Vegas and become a kind of groundballish reliever up here for a bit when Vic Black goes down with an injury. Then goes and drinks all night.

22 g, 25 IP, 0-1, 2.87, 20 K, 8 BB, 0 HR

[Edgy MD]

I like the zero-homers bit.

I'm starting to have a loss of faith that Sandy got the bargain he wanted in this guy after the meh season in Las Vegas and him surviving two straight Rule 5's.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

It was the teenage starter they wanted, Blake Taylor or something, right?

[Edgy MD]

Oh, right. Zack's the extra, huh?

Taylor's looking like a real project.