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 Wieters:  Friday.

 bad tendon sheath again, this time in his left wrist.  too much waggling i'd say.

in Buster Olney's column today:

From an AL evaluator:

"No. 1, I thought Matt Holliday looked trimmer, not as physically strong. I don't like to pass judgment on guys during spring training, but he only had two extra base hits as of a couple days ago.

 Woe is the owner counting on him and Johan Santana.

 He'll be in the 2011 draft, but don't wait that long to add him to your fantasy roster.

And here's an article detailing the kid that may be the greatest high school prospect of all-time.

 Looking forward to seeing what he's got for '10 purposes.

Advice:  look for someone steadier, in the Lester/Greinke/Cain/Verlander mold. 

 (note:  this is a pay link- I'm just tagging it "Andrew Miller" because the rest of the breakout pitchers aren't revealed by the teaser.)

I don't care so much about their analysis--I don't believe much in using stats to pick breakout pitchers, beyond the basics--but listen to this paragraph:

"The primary difficulty is that the up-and-down nature of most pitching careers means that pitchers of any age might post high Breakout Rates, particularly when their recent performance includes injury-related ineffectiveness. Among the small handful of pitchers with at least a 30 percent rate are veterans Randy Johnson, A.J. Burnett, Jeremy Bonderman and Ervin Santana, and that's after weeding out the small workloads (either due to injury-related attrition or to relief roles) and Ugueto Effect equivalents. Even after eliminating the noise, the Breakout Rates among our meaningful set of hurlers wind up being about half those shown by the hitters."

You gotta love dropping "Ugueto Effect" without explanation.

 That's it:  Dirk Hayhurst.  Heckuva name.

 Porcello's an interesting prospect- K rate around 5 per 9 IP, but scouting reports and ERA/WHIP look great.  I've got a funny feeling that he'll go off this year ... didn't Ben Sheets have low K rates but very good ERAs coming up the ladder?