I went back to watch the Brown and Little innings. Brown walked a guy in his 2 innings, and threw a lot of fastballs. Obviously control will be the thing with him, and facing good big-league hitters he may not be able to win with as many fastballs as he used in the minors. So like every good-stuff pitcher, it's about command. But, the fastballs that missed were all right around the zone, didn't miss badly. He looked very smooth and in-balance with his fastball. Looks like he's pretty close to having useful fastball control. Threw a couple of breaking balls, mixed results. Looks like he's got a chance to be very good, I can understand why Cubs like him.
Little pitched only one inning. Injured one guy with a wild pitch that bounced and hit the guy's leg/ankle on the bounce. wild with another up fastball and almost hit another guy. He looked much less in command and in-balance than Brown. Some of the misses missed pretty badly. But man, would he be an uncomfortable AB for a lefty. He K'd a lefty for third out, he's just blowing in the sidearm fastballs, guy had no chance. But he doesn't look like he's revised his motion from last fall, he's still the super-reduced motion; small leg kick and let the sidearm stuff rip. So much lateral motion, no wonder he's going to miss the plate a lot, and is going to hit some batters. But when he gets some of them over, going to be very hard to hit. Don't think he can ever be a control guy, but *IF* he can keep the walks from killing him, opponents are not going to like seeing him. He's tough.
I'm very optimistic for both of those prospects.
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