Let's move on to selecting the pitchers for the 2007 Ken Phelps All-Star Team. You'll see that finding "freely available talent" starting pitchers is difficult, but finding relief pitchers is easy.
The first starting pitcher for my Ken Phelps All-Stars is Devern Hansack, righthanded pitcher in the Red Sox organization. Devern is a 29-year-old from Nicaragua. (The official Minor League baseball site has his birthdate as February 5, 1978. Baseball Cube lists it as August 5, 1982. Obviously that makes a big difference.) Signed originally by the Astros in 1999, they released him in March of 2004. He pitched in the Nicaraguan professional league during the 2004 and 2005 seasons. Signed with the Red Sox as a minor league free agent in December of 2005.
This season, Hansack has a 3.56 ERA in 13 starts for AAA Pawtucket. In 78.1 innings he has 76 strikeouts and only 17 walks. He's getting strikeouts, has great control, and isn't giving up too many home runs. Here are the important stats:
SO/9 innings: 8.75 (above 8 is excellent)
BB/9: 1.96 (excellent)
HR/9: 0.92 (good)
GO/AO: 0.96 (ground-out to fly-out ratio - fair)
In 2006, Hansack had a 3.26 ERA in 132 innings at AA Portland. He started 18 times and appeared in relief 13 times. 124 striketouts, 36 walks and 14 home runs.
The Red Sox have given Devern Hansack a couple little tastes of the big leagues, but he hasn't stuck yet. He's very unfortunate to be with them, because the Red Sox are loaded with pitching. He'd be starting in the majors for many other teams.
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