This is a guy who has always put up solid minor league numbers. Petit was solid enough to be tabbed by Nate Silver's PECOTA rankings as a legitimate major league prospect. I saw Petit's name mentioned in the Index of Silver's most recent book The Signal and the Noise and read up a bit on his prior history. The fact that he has not parlayed that success and potential at the major league may scream either AAAA player or late-bloomer as the Mercury News article suggests.
Let's hope for the Giants sake that he is finally figuring out how to get major league hitters out and win ball games.
from Mercurynews.com:
Giants Extra | A blog about the San Francisco Giants:
But the real story was Yusmeiro Petit. One good start, you say, OK, maybe it was just a fluke. A second good start, especially one that includes one walk and 10 strikeouts, and you sit up and say, “Hey, Sabes, we may have something here.” To be sure, against all odds, there seems to be some grist to this 28-year-old Venezuelan possibly being a late-bloomer.
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