At 7:10 p.m. ET, my rookie baseball crush gets his first pitching start of 2010, and his name isn’t Stephen Strasburg, Ardolis Chapman, Wade Davis, or Mat Latos. Maybe it’s because I own him in two keeper fantasy leagues or because we both have a random “z” in our last name, regardless, I vote Brian Matusz, LHP Baltimore Orioles, as the rookie pitcher to watch in 2010. The sample size of 44.2 major league innings is small, but Matusz posted a respectable 4.63 ERA, 4.08 FIP (Fielding Independent Pitching), and 2.71 K/BB in 2009. He fine-tuned his performance during the 2010 spring training with a 2.59 ERA and 7 K/BB through 24.1 innings. I don’t put a lot of stock in spring training [...]
