Quote Originally Posted by engie View Post
You can tell a lot from bullpens during the week. While a game situation can't be replicated and certain guys will go mental -- confidence, movement, jump, velocity call all be measured beforehand, and someone that's seen a lot of it can measure likelihood of results pretty successfully off that. I thought that he had hit a midseason wall the past couple of weeks but changed my mind after this week's bullpen reports. We are primed for the stretch run. Need one or two more guys to grow a pair in the bullpen and ideally one more MIF to regain health. If Brown steps up -- we are going to have to stop ourselves because no one in the country will stop us.
If Brown pitches to his ability, combined with what we already have with Smith, Rigby, and Hump... That's a salty pen to go along with what has developed into a really good and deep rotation. And who knows what happens if Houston or one of the freshmen turn it on.

It's pretty obvious that we haven't peaked yet as some projected big, talented contributors still aren't playing up to their ceilings. Frankly, I don't think we have come close to peaking.