Rhett Kouba was promoted to AAA and started tonight’s game. AJ Blubaugh was promoted to AA and also started tonight.
Based on his savant data from last night he is a low velo guy (sat 91 on his fb) who appears to get guys to swing at pitches outside the zone by mixing his 4 pitches well. Hard to say if he will be able to get big leaguers out that way.
France throws 95-96 when he wants to. Kouba topped out at 93 last night, who knows if that’s actually his max but that’s a meaningful difference.
Yall motivated me to youtube some of Maddux with the Cubs, watching during the inning breaks. That dude was ****ing filthy. bonus: you get to hear Harry Caray
People really only remember "old maddux" He won the Cy Young the season before he went to Atlanta at age 26...then he won 3 more in a row
Luis Baez's three-run blast was Fayetteville's only scoring play, but it was enough in a 3-2 win. Baez now has 11 home runs in 54 games between the FCL and Fayetteville. Jake Bloss allowed an unearned run on two hits, walked four, and struck out six in 3.1 innings. Nic Swanson turned in a fine outing for Asheville, allowing a hit and striking out five over five shutout innings for Asheville. After a bit of a shaky start to his time with the Tourists in July, Swanson has been excellent in August as he's 1-1 with a 2.84 ERA in 5 appearances (4 starts, 25.1 IP). He's allowed just 12 hits this month. Tyler Whitaker hit his 7th home run of the season.
It’s the story line of the season man. We are teetering on not making the playoffs and his obstinacy with the lineup has cost us at least 5 or 6 wins and might be the difference between us winning the division and not making the playoffs. It’s not some minor nit pick.
His fastball tops out at 93 mph, but it is better at 90-92 mph. He has really good command, and his fastball has a low release point and that makes it really hard to pick up until late in the zone. He has secondary pitches that are flawed but play well against guys from one side of the plate. He is like 5-6 other guys either on the Astros or in AA or higher, he relies on control, command and deception.
