If you are going to win in the big leagues you have to be able to pitch. The Royals proved that with their playoff run last year. For a small market team developing pitching is a must. Paul Gibson, the Sr. Director of Pitching Performance for the Kansas City Royals joins us to discuss KC's pitching development.
Rany Jazayerli (Co-Founder Baseball Prospectus/@Jazayerli) and Soren Petro (Sports Radio 810-WHB, 810whb.com/@SorenPetro) talk to Gibson about...
- What goes into Gibson's job?
- Communicating with the pitchers in the organization.
- Promoting pitchers that haven't put up big numbers yet.
- Alec Marsh's development.
- When and how to move starters back to the bullpen.
- Daniel Lynch's conversion to the bullpen.
- Teaching velocity.
- Working with outside pitching academies.
- David Shields
- Ben Kudrna
- Pitching more innings.
- Developing pitching in Latin America.
- Young pitching in the system from Latin America.
- Asa Lacy
- Carlos Estevez