Kevin Mulvey and Alex Burnett

by limozeen on Oct 3, 2007 6:26 AM EDT

I know that one's a 22 year old college pitcher who went straight to AA the the other is a little-known A-ball pitcher from high school, but I was really struck by the similarities in numbers and scouting reports of Mulvey and Burnett.

Both are GB-inducing righties with mid 90s fastballs and decent-not-great K rates. Both have great control and feature a curve and a change in addition to the FB. Both are shorter righties as well.

Anyway, just wondering if anyone else sees this comparison.

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I dont know....

... from what Ive seen Burnett hardly has great control. I'll give you that they both may keep the ball on the ground decently, but Burnett had outstanding K-rates in the minors (10.76 K/9 for his minor league career, over 14 K/9 in A-ball at 21) and has consistantly very good K-rates in the majors (major league career K/9 over 8). Mulvey had K-rates consistantly below 7, though his control has been much better in the minors. Incidentally, Burnett works high 90s, not just mid-90s, when hes healthy.

I dont really know much at all about Mulvey, but any chance Lohse is a better comparison? Just a thought. Really I have no basis to it, its just who popped in my head as I was typing above. Really there are probably a million pitchers with that same profile all of whom are pretty mediocre.

by grozzy on Oct 3, 2007 9:48 AM EDT reply actions