There was a time when Andrew Kittredge looked like a new kind of pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays.
Before Sergio Romo became “The Opener” there was the precursor in Kittredge, who at the time we simply called one of the Rays starters, not knowing the fad to come. He was, in fact, the OG without any of the fame.
And if it wasn’t clear then, it still wasn’t clear as the year waned on or the Rays returned in spring training this year, what the plan was for Andrew Kittredge.
A solid arsenal of three pitches and an ability to pitch multiple innings multiple times within a series had serious value, but there were times even in the Spring where the Rays were still putting aspects of his game to the test instead of perfecting what should have been a high leverage arm for the Rays.