http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/...=Bud Norris&pos=P&sid=milb&t=p_pbp&pid=502032 I heard good things about this kid during spring training. It's nice to see that he is backing up the praise with very nice numbers. I'd like to see how he handles major league hitters some time later this season.
Bring him up an plug him in. Especially if we are out of it by late June. What have we got to lose? Kid is 22 years old. Either he's a player or he's not. No sense in d...... around. See if he can get Major league hitters out.
OK, lets see... The Astros are on a 5 game winning streak and have swept the last 2 series but they are going to lose 100 games. This Team is far from the last place losers that some are trying to make them out to be. It is WAY too early to start writing anybody off.
Who cares? Look at his other ratios. His K/ip and K/bb are pretty sick. For anyone in the know, what is Norris' projection? From what i've read and gathered before the season, there was some concern about his ability to stick as a starter? Anyone see him in Corpus?
2006. Just turned 23, power arm w/ a great changeup, working on control, curve and endurance. Gets lots of K's & groundballs, which is nice. Good season last year in Lex, though the W/L & ERA don't show it. Pitched very well in the Hawaiian League & opened some eyes at the Ryan camp. http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/N/Bud-Norris.shtml Also, 2007 pick 2B Matt Cusik is just tearing up the Sally League.
Well, looking at his AA stats so far, he's 2-0 with a 1.8 ERA. But looking more closely, he's allowed 18 hits and 4 walks in 20 innings, which is more baserunners than I would typically expect for a guy with a sub-2 ERA. I'm thinking he's been a bit lucky so far to start the season.
4bb/20in is great. There is nothing wrong with that whip. Anyways, look deeper into the stats. If anything, he's been unlucky. He's allowed a .383 babip, which is basically unsustainable.
That's really not a lot of baserunners at all, raven. WHIP's 7th in the Texas League (Brad James is 5th).
I read in the offseason at least one person talking about him being the breakout prospect in all of baseball, so I don't think that this necessarily tells the whole story. I also don't think you can pencil him into the MLB roster just yet like some others are trying to do. There are tons of pitchers who've dominated AA who didn't make any impact in the major leagues. On the top 10 list of Astros prospects from Baseball America, he is now in the #2 slot (since they've traded Patton, Juan Gutierrez, and Costanzo, & promoted Bourne & Towles). The other guy they have at AA is Brad James, who was beaten up in 1/4 a season of AA last year but seems to have figured it out. Then you have Paulino at AAA, and after that they really honestly have nothing worth mentioning as far as I know. Perhaps you could add Nieve.
