{"id":17824,"date":"2022-08-27T07:04:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T11:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17824"},"modified":"2022-08-27T07:04:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T11:04:53","slug":"its-cavalli-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17824","title":{"rendered":"Its Cavalli Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Cade Cavalli gets the call Photo via Lookout Landing blog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So, the big news of the week is the call-up of top pitching prospect Cade Cavalli<\/strong>. The timing (and change in service time rules) means he’ll still be 2023 Rookie eligible and doesn’t burn enough time to blow a year of service time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is this premature? Probably not. Cavalli started out a little slow this year in AAA, basically getting shelled in five of his first seven starts. In mid May he had a 7.62 ERA<\/a>. However, as of this writing through his combined 20 starts he’s gotten that seasonal ERA all the way down to 3.71. His AAA FIP is a nifty 3.23, and across the board he’s improved upon his 2021 AAA numbers<\/a> in every category (K\/9, BB\/9, ERA, fip, whip, HR\/9, etc etc).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HIs MLB debut was about what you’d expect; 7 runs in 4+ innings, 97mph on his fastball, 6 Ks almost all on his offspeed stuff (which looks amazing: his curve was knee buckling and his circle change at 88 with a ton of reverse movement was fantastic).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can’t remember the last time we had a prospect debut with this much fanfare; Strasburg or Harper probably. His call-up was non-nats blog worthy, something we havn’t seen in a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As others noted, his start coincided with a big chunk of our “up the spine” future in place: Ruiz catching, Cavalli pitching, Abrams at short and Garcia at 2nd. None of them older than 24, all of them with prospect buzz. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next generation of our franchise has started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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