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 |
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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.

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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.

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