Brian Fuentes: bust or not?

Only because hes new though. Someone who has been on the team for awhile, I tend to have more patience with. Hell, I gave Speier an entire season. So far, he hasn’t been that impressive to me though and I doesn’t have my trust.

Whew, good thing Im not manager.

of the doubt because he only threw 6 2/3 innings in the spring. I’ll wait and see where he is at at the end of april. If he blows another save or two well then things might change. But i’ll give him the month.

Lets cut his ass now! This is ridiculous. I just…. cannot believe we signed this guy. One blown save? ONE BLOWN SAVE? Wow…..

I thought we signed a bad contract when we got GMJ, but this is maybe the worst closer in the history of anything picking up anything round and throwing it.

5000% bust, lets no look back. Who cares if its only his third save opportunity!

from adult large to adult XL.

When I wrote this I couldn’t help but to think how Fuentes first blown save prevented NA from getting his W.

Such a bummer…

give the job to Shields and let Fuentes set it up!

and if it still doesn’t work out Arredondo for set-up

Fuentes may be a bust, but i’m guessing any closer who has posted consecutive 30+ saves at Coors field of all places, probably is not. Rough outing today, and terrible one Wednesday, does not constitute a bust in my book. Come later this month or May, then yes, we should be concerned. Everyone just chill, and give the guy at least two weeks, before we vote him off the island. Let’s not forget that Frankie, despite the single season saves record, hardly ever, ever, had a 1-2-3 game over save.

but it’s early

That one year ago we were having almost this exact same conversation about Frankie. Remember the bruised ankles, the blown save opportunities, the skyrocketing ERA?

Remember what happened after that?

BF might not save 62, but it is WAY too early to freak out.

It is way too early to make any type of informative statement on if he is a bust or not. Remember Fuentes became an All-Star and then went on to lose his closer’s job in CO, so he tends to be up and down.

  4 of the first ten Blown.
  Dondo or Shields closing by June

the guy had a rough and scary spring with his child. give him time to locate his fastball for christ’s sake.

frankie loaded the bases in his second opportunity for the mets and the 3rd out was caught at the wall. lets not act like frankie was some lockdown guy. he blew 7 saves last year.

fuentes, like most strike out pitchers, needs a few weeks to locate and get his velocity up

This guy gives up a lot of hits. I’m a little worried.

very poor signing, he was demoted at one point last year. Closers are hard to come by, I always say overpay for a closer if he is solid. Should of signed Franky, plan B should of been Putz. Plan C Arredondo, signing Fuentes is a waist of money.

The front office wasn’t going to throw Dondo out there to close games with less than 1 year of major league experience. He needs more time to develop behind a solid closer like Frankie did with Percival. Shields probably could close games but the FO likes him better in the setup role, so they signed a good closer who was solid last year in Fuentes. While I would have loved to see Frankie back it was clear that he wanted to test the free agent waters.