{"id":17061,"date":"2021-05-10T08:56:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T12:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17061"},"modified":"2021-05-17T13:12:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T17:12:56","slug":"observations-on-the-first-time-through-the-minor-league-rotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17061","title":{"rendered":"Observations on the first time through the Minor League Rotations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, we&#8217;re a week into the season and we&#8217;ve seen one turn through the minor league rotations.  Lets take a quick look at what we&#8217;re looking at for rotations at the four full season levels and do a quick observation of who looked hot and cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These rotation orders are maintained on the Big Board, where i&#8217;ve also attempted to put the bullpen into their roles (Closer, Setup, middle relief, loogy and Long Reliever\/spot starters).  That effort may prove to be impossible to maintain, especially in lower levels where they&#8217;ve gone to tandem starts in years past, but we&#8217;ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rotations, despite the minors going to 6-game series, seem to be 5-man rotations, which isn&#8217;t nearly as neat as it could be, but whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rotations by level:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>AAA: Nolin, Fuentes, Braymer, JRodriguez, Armenteros,<\/li><li>AA: Cate, MSanchez, Teel, Sharp, LReyes<\/li><li>High-A: Rutledge, Adon, Cavalli, Henry,<\/li><li>Low-A: Strom, Seijas, PGonzalez, Parker, Theopile<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Who looked good:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Carson Teel<\/strong>: managed to go 5 innings, unlike the rest of the AA rotation.  Gave up 4 hits and just one earned run.  Not bad.<\/li><li><strong>Cade Cavalli<\/strong>: 5ip, 2 hits, 7Ks, zero runs in his pro debut?  More please.<\/li><li><strong>Joan Adon<\/strong>: Same whip as Cavalli but still relatively unhittable despite giving up a couple of runs.  I like his easy action and I think he&#8217;s a fast mover this year.<\/li><li><strong>Pedro Gonzalez<\/strong>: just 3 1\/3 but 1 hit and 2 walks against 5 Ks in low A at age 20.  I&#8217;ll take that.<\/li><li><strong>Mitchell Parker<\/strong>: 7Ks in 4innings in his pro debut.  Works for me.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Who looked awful<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Steven Fuentes<\/strong>: not a great start, but a quick hook compared to the next guy.<\/li><li><strong>Jefry Rodriguez<\/strong>: geeze; 6 walks and didn&#8217;t make it out of the first?  <\/li><li><strong>Sterling Sharp<\/strong>: not a good start, at all.  8 runs in less than 3 innings in AA when he was pitching in the majors last year.  <\/li><li><strong>Tim Cate<\/strong>: somehow, his ERA is higher than Sharp&#8217;s.<\/li><li><strong>Leif Strom<\/strong>: 2ip, 7 runs .. ugh.  He was so bad it already looks like he has been replaced in the rotation, in that he pitched a couple innings in the Theopile start.<\/li><li><strong>Karlo Seijas<\/strong>: the worst start of anyone: 2\/3 of an inning and 7 runs.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we&#8217;re a week into the season and we&#8217;ve seen one turn through the minor league rotations. Lets take a quick look at what we&#8217;re looking at for rotations at the four full season levels and do a quick observation of who looked hot and cold. These rotation orders are maintained on the Big Board, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4394,3884,1876,3988,4533,3634,4400,4250,3335,3038,3763],"class_list":["post-17061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minorspitching","tag-cade-cavalli","tag-carson-teel","tag-jefry-rodriguez","tag-joan-adon","tag-karlo-seijas","tag-leif-strom","tag-mitchell-parker","tag-pedro-gonzalez","tag-sterling-sharp","tag-steven-fuentes","tag-tim-cate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17061"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17068,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17061\/revisions\/17068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}