Found August 04, 2009 on Big League Stew:
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So Edinson Volquez was barely done with his Tommy John surgery on Monday when I got an email from our old pal Nick Friedell, now with ESPN Chicago. "Remember this?" he asked. The link went through to an old Stew piece in which Nick wondered if Cincinnati manager Dusty Baker was eating up the young arms of Edinson Volquez and Johnny Cueto, just as he had been accused of doing in Chicago with Mark Prior and Kerry Wood."Ah, yes," I laughed before crediting Nick with a nice, if obvious, moment of incredible foresight. "Ah, yes."Now that Volquez is on the sidelines for at least a year with right arm troubles — seemingly taking the Reds' blossoming hopes with him — the finger-pointing in The Queen City has begun. Luckily for Baker, the blame isn't being heaped solely on decisions like allowing a 24-year-old pitcher to throw 118 times while his team is already leading by nine runs. • Pat Lackey of Fanhouse does his research and believe...
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