Daily News | ‘A valuable experience’: Inside Andrew Painter’s road back to the Phillies
who knows Painter any better or longer. It means something, then, that Kaplan, like most team officials, remains hopeful that the 20-year-old phenom will pitch this season — and perhaps even make his major league debut. A kiddie pool-deep starting rotation could desperately use him. Maybe he could even be an X-factor down the stretch.
It would be only natural for Painter to feel the periodic urge to rush, to push his elbow harder than prescribed, to get back to the doorstep of the major leagues, a place few pitchers his age have been. In the last 20 years, nine pitchers have made at least 10 major-league starts in their age-20 or younger season. The Phillies haven’t had a 20-year-old starter since Mark Davis in 1981.
But Barrett’s greatest triumph came in 2019, when he made it back to the majors after the twin horrors of Tommy John surgery in 2015 and a gruesome broken arm suffered while pitching in a rehab game in Florida. He missed two full seasons, spent half of 2018 in the low minors, and racked up 31 saves in double A in 2019 before finally“Andy’s never really been hurt before, and obviously he has a tremendous amount of pressure on him because he’s our guy,” Barrett said. “There are always some doubts.
“No one blames a 19-year-old for being excited,” Kaplan said. “Some of that excitement turns to anxiousness, and maybe he goes outside of himself a little bit in just the excitement of the potential of being on an opening-day roster.”
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