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Originally Posted by BigRapidsJackass
As for Cook and a rehab start: Fuentes aggravated his injury during a rehab start. So I might understand your point if the Rockies were planning on having Cook not even throw off a mound for another week or some such thing. But he's going to be pitching, he's probably going to be going more or less full tilt, and I think the reinjury risk has to be just about as big when making a minor league start as it would be pitching for the big club.
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That's actually a great point. The problem with Fuentes wasn't the rehab outing, it was the lack of sufficient time between the injury and when he tried to crank it up again. Had he foregone the rehab outing and tried to pitch for the Rockies, it's safe to presume he would have had the same problem.
With Cook, I think they've already given him more time than Fuentes had, so when he's healthy it simply becomes a question of whether he's your best option. No doubt the club is better off having him throw 70 effective pitches in Denver as opposed to the Springs. I suppose it hinges on how he looked in the side sessions, because the margin for error is such that maybe Franklin Morales gives them a better chance to win than a sloppy Aaron Cook who is guaranteed to burn at least 4.0 innings of your bullpen?