Following up on yesterday’s look at the 2013 offense, today we summarize the Reds minor league individual pitcher performances.
To compile these pitching lists, I again limited it to players age 25 and younger. The “Lev” column indicates the highest minor league level a player attained during the season. I included columns for hit-by-pitch (HBP) and wild pitch (WP) totals as another measure to indicate potential wildness. A pitcher with an asterisk(*) next to their name indicates that they throw left-handed.
STARTING PITCHERS
Except for Tony Cingrani and Nick Routt, I looked at starting pitchers with double digit starts and high K/9 ratios. For those starters down the list, they either are or have recently been on various prospect lists and could still be seen at the major league level down the road. This gives us 18 starting pitchers sorted by K/9:
| Player | Age | Lev | GS | IP | ERA | WHIP | HR/9 | HBP | WP | BB/9 | SO/9 | SO/BB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tony Cingrani* | 23 | AAA | 6 | 31.1 | 1.15 | 0.798 | 0.3 | 1 | 1 | 3.2 | 14.1 | 4.45 |
| Ben Lively | 21 | A | 13 | 41 | 0.88 | 0.878 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | 2.9 | 12.3 | 4.31 |
| Robert Stephenson | 20 | AA | 22 | 114.1 | 2.99 | 1.111 | 0.8 | 3 | 12 | 2.8 | 10.7 | 3.89 |
| Ismael Guillon* | 21 | A | 26 | 121.1 | 4.75 | 1.566 | 1.0 | 1 | 26 | 7.0 | 9.9 | 1.41 |
| Jeremy Kivel | 19 | Rk | 12 | 50.2 | 3.91 | 1.441 | 0.7 | 4 | 11 | 4.1 | 9.9 | 2.43 |
| Nick Routt* | 22 | Rk | 9 | 22 | 2.86 | 1.455 | 0.0 | 2 | 4 | 2.5 | 9.8 | 4.00 |
| Jon Moscot | 21 | AA | 28 | 146.2 | 4.30 | 1.302 | 1.2 | 9 | 11 | 2.9 | 8.6 | 2.92 |
| Luke Moran | 21 | Rk | 15 | 74 | 4.74 | 1.419 | 1.0 | 4 | 5 | 1.9 | 8.6 | 4.44 |
| Carlos Contreras | 22 | AA | 26 | 132.1 | 3.47 | 1.270 | 0.7 | 8 | 9 | 4.2 | 8.3 | 1.97 |
| Josh Smith | 25 | AA | 28 | 160 | 3.26 | 1.238 | 0.9 | 7 | 5 | 2.8 | 7.8 | 2.78 |
| Drew Cisco | 21 | A | 24 | 130.2 | 3.86 | 1.255 | 0.8 | 2 | 3 | 1.1 | 6.8 | 6.19 |
| Sal Romano | 19 | A | 25 | 120.1 | 4.86 | 1.587 | 0.7 | 10 | 9 | 4.3 | 6.7 | 1.56 |
| Nick Travieso | 19 | A | 17 | 81.2 | 4.63 | 1.347 | 0.8 | 4 | 8 | 3.0 | 6.7 | 2.26 |
| Chad Rogers | 23 | AAA | 25 | 140 | 3.21 | 1.129 | 0.9 | 5 | 3 | 2.9 | 6.6 | 2.29 |
| Tim Crabbe | 25 | AAA | 26 | 153 | 3.06 | 1.268 | 0.7 | 4 | 6 | 2.5 | 6.4 | 2.53 |
| Daniel Corcino | 22 | AAA | 23 | 129 | 5.86 | 1.659 | 1.2 | 11 | 7 | 5.1 | 6.3 | 1.23 |
| Junior Morillo* | 21 | Rk | 13 | 64.2 | 3.06 | 1.284 | 0.6 | 4 | 7 | 1.4 | 6.1 | 4.40 |
| Amir Garrett* | 21 | A | 13 | 57.2 | 5.15 | 1.526 | 0.6 | 3 | 10 | 4.1 | 5.0 | 1.23 |
2013 4th round draft pick Ben Lively had an excellent professional debut. He issued just 13 free passes and struck out 56 while making all but one of his starts with Billings. Look for his innings limit to be extended past 3 innings per start next year, and potential for quick promotion through the system if he continues his dominant performance.
Game played on 09/05/13 Rookie Missoula 6 – Billings 4 Jose Guzman started and pitched perfect baseball for the first three innings of the game. However, Guzman started the 4th inning, faced 6 batters, and was pulled without retiring a batter. His final line was 6 runs on 3 hits and 3 walks over 3 […]
Games Played on 8/29/2013
Minor League Player of the Day: Chad Rogers allowed just 3 hits over 7 innings for his second straight start. He allowed just one run, the three hits and two walks while striking out four.
Chad Rogers allowed just one run, three hits and two walks over 7 innings while striking out four. Curtis Partch and Jose Diaz combined to keep the Clippers off the board over the final two innings.
Derrick Robinson and Neftali Soto each had a pair of hits. Henry Rodriguez singled, walked and stole second base twice. Corky Miller is back with the Bats on a rehab assignment and went 1-for-2 with a walk as the team’s DH.
Billy Hamilton only reached once on a first inning single, stole 2nd and 3rd base (75th of the year) but was left stranded 90 feet from home plate.
Carlos Contreras allowed a run, 3 hits, 4 walks, hit a batter and struck out 2 in 5.1 innings. While wild in the game, the lone run he allowed came on a solo homerun. Parker Frazier (1.1 IP, 3 H, 1 BB, 1 K) surrendered the other run in the 7th inning.
Donald Lutz (2-for-4) hit a pair of doubles. Yorman Rodriguez (1-for-4) doubled and scored the only Pensacola run. Redleg Nation Spotlight Player Tucker Barnhart (1-for-4) knocked in Rodriguez and also threw out a runner trying to steal second base.
Games Played on 8/10/2013 Minor League Player of the Day: Reds 2011 #1 draft pick, Robert Stephenson, recovered from a bad start, with 6 innings of shutout baseball. He allowed only 1 hit and 1 walk, and struck out 9. He’s lowed his ERA to 3.05 since his promotion to Bakersfield. Stephenson is 20 and […]
Games Played on 08/06/13
Minor League Player of the Day: Bakersfield SP Jake Johnson: He got the win as he went 5 IP and allowed 0 R on 3 H and 1 BB with 5 K.
AAA
Ryan Ludwick went 1 for 4 with a HR. Mike Hessman went 1 for 3 with a 2B and a BB. Henry Rodriguez doubled.
Yohan Pino got no decision as he went 6.1 IP and allowed 2 R on 5 H and 0 BB with 9 K. Nick Christiani got the win with 0.2 IP of scoreless relief. Kevin Whelan picked up his 6th save with 1 IP of scoreless relief.
AA
Birmingham 7 – Pensacola 6 (10 Innings)
Donald Lutz went 3 for 5 with a 2B. Yorman Rodriguez went 3 for 6 with a 2B. Ray Chang went 3 for 4 with a BB. Corey Wimberly went 2 for 4. Chris Berset doubled and walked.
Carlos Contreras got no decision as he went 5 IP and allowed 2 R on 3 H and 2 BB with 3 K. Chris Manno (1.1 IP) and Parker Frazier (2 IP) each added scoreless relief outings. Drew Hayes took the loss allowing a solo HR in the 10th without retiring a batter.
Games Played on 7/11/2013
Minor League Player of the Day: Jesse Winker has had only one hit on each of the past two days, but they have both been big hits. On Wednesday, Winker was the 4th player to bat in the 1st inning and hit a grand slam. Yesterday, Winker batted 3rd and hit a 3-run homerun in the 1st inning.
Winker finished Thursday 1-for-3 with the homerun, two walks, two runs scored and a sac fly.
AAA
Louisville 3 – Indianapolis 2
The Bats and the Pirates AAA farm team were scoreless until the top of the 7th inning. Daniel Corcino allowed the only two Indians runs on a 2-run homerun to Andrew Lambo. It was a nice bounceback start for Corcino, who allowed just the 2 runs on 3 hits and 4 walks over 7 innings.
Neftali Soto (2-for-4, 2B) hit a 2-run double in the bottom of the 8th to tie the game at 2-2. Denis Phipps (2-for-3, BB) led off the bottom of the 9th inning with a single, and later scored the winning run on Kristopher Negron’s pinch-hit walk off single.
Zach Duke pitched a scoreless 8th inning. Duke is yet to allow a run in his 11.1 innings with the Bats. He has walked two and struck out 12. Kevin Wheelan walked one batter and struck out three in his scoreless 9th inning of work.
Ryan LaMarre hit a 3-run homerun in the 4th inning to give the Blue Wahoos all the runs they would need. Travis Mattair (3-for-4, BB, R) had 3 hits for the second day in a row. Donald Lutz doubled twice and scored twice. Redleg Nation Spotlight Player, Tucker Barnhart had two hits and two RBI. Corey Wimberly (2-for-4, HR, 2 RBI) added a solo homerun in the 9th inning.
Tim Crabbe (4-7, 3.41 ERA) pitched 6 shutout innings, allowing just 6 hits, walking no one and striking out 4. Josh Ravin and Loek Van Mil each pitched a scoreless inning in relief.
2013 Draft Notes: — The Reds signed their first round draft pick, Phillip Ervin, shortly after the draft ended. — Earlier this week, we shared links to stories and videos on the great story of Reds 9th round pick, Chad Jones. More recently this article states that Jones has talked with Jocketty and will report […]
The Cincinnati Reds 9th round draft pick had been fighting against all odds to live his dream of playing in an NFL football stadium. The 2010 3rd round draft pick of the New York Giants was preparing for his first NFL season, when he nearly lost his left leg in an automobile accident. Jones’ unrelenting […]