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Burton Barrilleaux
Starting Pitcher | Retired or Inactive Players
Pitching It's tough to get much loft on the ball against him, as he works down in the strike zone to begin with and his two-seamer produces mostly groundballs. He struggles with his command at times and is still learning to mix his pitches and set up hitters. His pitches lose some movement when he pitches from the stretch position. He can hit 90 MPH but is too smart to try to get his fastball past most hitters. Sometimes I wish he'd just give up on throwing the changeup, it's like a BP ball! The running movement on his pitches makes life tougher on lefties than righties.
Defense & Hitting Though he lacks a good pickoff move, he checks the running game with a compact stretch delivery. Barrilleaux is nothing special in the field. Barrilleaux is a surpisingly good hitting pitcher. And I'm not sure you can say this about a pitcher, but Barrilleaux has some pop in his swing. Interesting sidenote, The Retired or Inactive Players have been known to use Barrilleaux as a pinch-runner on occasion.
-- Moostard Nyman
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