WTH 25-Man Roster - Pitching Update

It's been a while since we checked in on the pitchers from the WTH 25-man roster. Let's see how they're doing. [Note - The What the Heck 25-man roster was compiled through reader votes throughout the off-season.]



Note that since Jack Armstrong is out for the season recovering from Tommy John surgery, Jason Chowning will take his place on the roster as the runner up in voting for that position. Jason has had an excellent start and has one of the highest SO/9 in the entire Astros minor league system (behind only Kevin Chapman for pitchers with at least 15 innings).

Our collective staff has slipped a bit since we last checked in on them, but are still performing better than the system average. The WTH pitchers have a 3.59 ERA and a 1.330 WHIP with 8.0 SO/9 (as compared to 4.68 ERA, 1.431 WHIP and 7.8 SO/9 for the system as a whole). Our starting pitchers are 10-11. Jason Chowning and Fernando Abad (minor league numbers only) have yet to give up an earned run. Jason Chowning also leads the staff in saves.

The only other pitcher not on the WTH roster with a 0.00 ERA is Xavier Cedeno. The most impressive starting pitcher missing from our roster is Lexington's Mike Foltynewicz (4-1, 1.60 ERA and 1.220WHIP). The most impressive relief pitchers missing from our roster are Lancaster's Kirk Clark (1-1, 1.74 ERA, 0.968 WHIP, 2 saves in 10 games); Corpus Christi's Jason Stoffel (0-1, 2.13 ERA, 0.868 WHIP, 2 saves in 10 games); and Oklahoma City's Jose Valdez (0-0, 2.84 ERA, 1.105 WHIP, 5 saves in 13 games).

Tomorrow we'll check in on our WTH Roster position players and see how they're doing.