Jordan Stephens makes his first start in AAA this morning. 9:35am Chicago time start!
While our trio of ML SP prospects continue to flop, Covey all of a sudden has spun off 3 straight good starts at Charlotte.
Last edited by LoveYourSuit; 05-16-2018 at 10:46 AM.
Not a good start- got hit pretty hard in the 1st, but settling down, retired the next 5 through the 2nd.
Listening to the game via the MiLB app (free)- it's nice not to be completely annoyed by the radio broadcast for once- the Charlotte guy is pretty good.
While our trio of ML SP prospects continue to flop, Cove all of a sudden has spun off 3 straight good starts at Charlotte.
It's almost like the Twilight Zone, I know.
If Covey keeps pitching this way, he's going to work his way into a call up sooner rather than later. He has the draft pedigree at least, just...well, we all know what we saw from him before. Maybe he's turned the corner, or maybe he's just AAAA filler at best. We'll just have to wait and see.
He really turned this outing around. Looked like he was not going to survive the first inning. He has been solid now 1 inning away from hell of quality start.
This is a real good sign and indicator of his makeup. 0 BB on top of that.
2 runs and 4 Hits in the first inning.
If we can get one starter out of our pre rebuild crop, I will consider that a success.
Guys like Guerrero, Adams, etc appear as flame-outs at this point.
If Dylan Covey wants to parlay the heavy downward movement on his pitches into the same level of late-bloomer success that Matt Davidson has reached with his power, that is perfectly OK by me.
Covey's "stuff" is there, just like Davidson's power was there. Covey just needs to miss down in the zone if he's going to miss. He's toast once he hangs anything.
Here's a nice write up about Kannapolis reliever Tyler Johnson. He was our 5th round draft pick last year.
Him and Henzman look like they might be something. Good to see that there's decent pitching prospects behind the big names.
Could be a nice bullpen piece along with I. Hamilton (0.64 ERA, age 22 at AA) and Burdi- maybe Vieira as well(last 10 appearances, 2.84 ERA with 20Ks in 12.2 IP).
Welp, time for a new thread as we are almost at 500 posts.