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Let’s go full overreaction on Orion Kerkering

Related Topics: Matt Winkelman

You’ll find no rational thought here.

You’ll find no “small sample size” arguments within.

What you’re about to read is full on overreaction to one appearance against a team that looked incredibly ready for the season to end. It’s always dangerous to see a hyped up pitching prospect come into the majors, blow away the competition with relative ease and get lost in the dreams created by such an appearance. Most of the time, it’s a starter, one that explodes onto the scene as Stephen Strasburg did oh so many years ago.

Last night, it was a bullpen arm, a bullpen arm that seemed to have been touched by some kind of angel on his way to the Citizens Bank Park mound.