agreed. This isn't the time for rest. It's time to start building him towards joining the rotation. They can be careful and cautious but there's no reason to not get him on a regular schedule if he's feeling good after that outing.
Yep, we need him in the rotation badly Don't force him if not ready, but when he is ready he is very much needed
AJ Reed OPS is up to .902, it's time to bring him to Houston and see if he can help. Musgrove has been absolutely dominant at AA, although they are limiting his innings bigtime. 1 Earned run in 17.2 innings, and 2 BB to 21K's. This guy is just picking up where he left off last year. At 23 Years of age, i'd sure like to see him get to AAA soon, could be a guy who could help us quite a bit in the second half
Yes and yes. When Reed comes up, no reason to hold Moran back unless they're waiting to trade Valbuena. If so, I hope Luhnow is burning up the phones on that.
Agree, although Moran isn't hitting nearly as well as Reed. The batting average is good, but not many extra base hits and striking out a bit too much. Still think there is a chance he could come up right now and give us more than we are getting from Valbuena and Marwin though.
Looking at the April minor league stats: Pitching WHIP <= 1 AAA 0.75 Jandel Gustave 0.97 James Hoyt AA 0.00 Yeyfry Del Rosario 0.81 Joe Musgrove 0.83 Reymin Guduan 1.00 David Paulino A+ 0.80 Rogelio Armenteros 0.87 Evan Grills 0.89 Trent Thornton A- 0.79 Ralph Garza 0.80 Rogelio Armentero 0.89 Jacob Dorris 0.92 Andrew Thome 0.93 Ryan Deemes 1.04 Matt Bower Hitting OPs > .800 AAA .969 Danny Worth .907 Eury Perez .882 A.J. Reed AA 1.091 Alex Bregman 1.012 Chan Jong Moon .857 Jack Mayfield A+ .861 Nick Tanielu A- .975 Anthony Hermelyn Caveats: SSS, arbitrary stats A- Quad Cities also had great pitching last season as well.
I guess it's back to hanging out in the minor league thread again this year. Albert Abreu (BA's top pitcher in the Appy league last year) had his best start of the year tonight: 6IP, 1H, 1ER, 1R, 3BB, 9K's. In 20.1IP this year he's struck out 31 people (13.7K/9). His walk rate (4.4BB/9) is a little high but he's got the makings of another top 100 prospect.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Joe Musgrove logged six more scoreless innings tonight for Corpus, improving his ERA to 0.39. Me thinks he’s ready for a new challenge.</p>— Jake Kaplan (@jakemkaplan) <a href="https://twitter.com/jakemkaplan/status/727319999040253952">May 3, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I expect him to move up to AAA. Generally the rotation at the big league level hasn't been the main issue of late..it's the bats. Given that they're already going to have to make a roster move to bring LMJ off the DL, I can't imagine they move Musgrove up directly from AA. Instead, I would expect that they use that swing slot (25th man) for another hitter promotion when they're working on Reed, Moran, and whoever else makes sense
No. McCullers will get the call first. The next starter up would then be Musgrove. Looking at the Astros starting pitchers ERA 1.45 Devenski 3.97 Feldman 4.60 Fister 4.97 Fiers 5.11 Keuchel 6.55 McHugh Our #1 and #2 are clearly the problem.
A week or two ago, it was the three F's that everyone thought were the problem. Now they are our #1-3 guys based on era (I dont count Devenski yet due to lack of innings). Its almost as though our 1-5 became our 5-1. Unreal.
Hard to get a good read this early with just ERA as one bad game can skew it But even using quality starts, which is a pretty low level guide to truly being good Keuchel has 2 QS in 6 starts McHugh has 1 of 5 Fiers 2 of 5 Fister 3 of 5 Devenski 0 of 5 (did not go 6 innings) Feldman was 1 of 4 The top 2 guys aren't going anywhere, and Lance will be a third starter fairly soon. I would like to think the other guys are fighting for spots at this point and if Musgrove has a couple of more dominant starts and those guys are struggling, he will be here by June
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Daz Cameron, who was hitting .143 at Quad Cities with 33 strikeouts in 77 ABs, has been sent to extended spring to work on his swing.</p>— Brian McTaggart (@brianmctaggart) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianmctaggart/status/727664094300381184">May 4, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
