He done did it again

Last year Scott Kazmir spent 76 1/3 dominant innings with Capital City before getting called up to St. Lucie. During that time, he posted a 2.36 ERA, struck out 12.4 batters per nine innings, walked 3.3 and allowed 0.7 home runs. Yusmeiro Petit's only been in Cap City for 44 1/3 innings, but so far this year he's owning the South Atlantic League even more thoroughly than Kazmir. Yesterday, he went six innings, allowed just two hits, two walks and zero runs, and struck out ten. He's striking out batters at a rate of 11.9 per nine, slightly off Kazmir's pace, but he's also walking just 2.8 and allowing just 0.4 home runs while posting a 1.62 ERA. The 6'0", 180 lb. Petit doesn't seem to be on a Kazmir-like pitch count, as he's racking up innings more quickly than Kazmir ever has. It may still be too early to talk about a promotion for Petit, but with the way he's pitching this year, we should get to see what he can do for a decent amount of time in the Florida State League before the end of the year, which should give us a chance to see if he can keep up anything resembling this dominating pace at higher levels of the minors.

Oh, and Jose Reyes is apparently going to play a baseball game tonight and Kazmir apparently isn't too far away from doing the same. So that's nice to see.  ¶ joe | 2:20 PM |