Blaine Knight

[connja]

Trying to get himself back on the prospect radar.  5 shutout innings tonight, 1 hit 0 walks.  That's following 4 shutout innings in his first start.  That would be a nice surprise.

[bpilktree]

11 minutes ago, connja said:

Trying to get himself back on the prospect radar.  5 shutout innings tonight, 1 hit 0 walks.  That's following 4 shutout innings in his first start.  That would be a nice surprise.

9 innings so far 4 hits allowed and 0 walks.  

[UMDTerrapins]

Nice start tonight. Think he only allowed two hard hit balls; one a ground out and the other fouled off. Only hit he gave up was an oops nubber to 3rd. Located his pitches nicely. Slider is a good pitch and his fastball was respectable. Seemed to throw his curve high in the zone.....maybe just wasn't working for him tonight? Didn't notice him throwing the CU. Kind of reminds me of a skinny Mike Mussina. Certainly want to see more of him, but I like what I saw. Didn't seem to ever miss his spots by much and didn't nibble. Was in the strike zone without hanging anything. First impression is if he has a plus CU in his toolkit, he becomes a starter to keep a close eye on. Looking forward to seeing more. 

[Frobby]

A nice start for Knight tonight: 4.2 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 6 K’s.   His ERA is 2.41 in 18.2 IP over 4 starts.  

[Just Regular]

Spreadsheeting the High-A East pitching numbers for Grayson's farewell, it jumped out at me that Knight is 1st in Lowest BB%, followed by Stallings, and Rom a mere 4th among 25 SP.    Stallings and Rom it is a little bit batters very much like these strikes, but Knight is holding back Hits too.   Could easily be BABIP-luck in a month, but the Ironbirds' other SP seem to be doing great throwing strikes.

[Sports Guy]

Made his AA debut tonight. (I’m assuming he is done for the night)

6 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 1 BB and 6 Ks.

66% of his pitches for strikes.

[sportsfan8703]

10 hours ago, Sports Guy said:

Made his AA debut tonight. (I’m assuming he is done for the night)

6 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 1 BB and 6 Ks.

66% of his pitches for strikes.

So promotion do happen?  We’ve had an overall good/great performance by our MILB’ers this season. Peralta, Knight, Bishop, etc...  Analytics?

[MurphDogg]

Knight made his second start at Bowie tonight. 

5 innings, 82 pitches, 1 run, 3 hits, 7 strikeouts, no walks. Only run was a long home run by Will Toffey.

He was a prospect prior to his disastrous 2019 season. Could be working his way back into consideration.

[jabba72]

2 BB in 29.2 innings this year. 

[orioles22]

Knight with his first save tonight - one run allowed in four runs.

I wonder if he could be a bullpen option for the Orioles by May or June next year.

[orioles22]

Oops - one run allowed in four innings - love those four-inning saves.

[Frobby]

https://www.masnsports.com/steve-melewski/2021/07/after-rocky-19-right-hander-blaine-knight-gets-back-on-track.html

[Just Regular]

The lead was the 1-2 switch in Tony's power rankings this week, but I did also notice Knight leapfrogging Lowther, Smith, Rom and Brnovich, a group of pitchers I have some hopes for whereas Knight's 2019 struggles were so deep he'd felt more like a lost cause.

Glad to see him back to pitching well.

[Frobby]

16 minutes ago, OrioleDog said:

The lead was the 1-2 switch in Tony's power rankings this week, but I did also notice Knight leapfrogging Lowther, Smith, Rom and Brnovich, a group of pitchers I have some hopes for whereas Knight's 2019 struggles were so deep he'd felt more like a lost cause.

Glad to see him back to pitching well.

I had not noticed that.   Personally I’m not ready to put him ahead of those guys yet.    But, I do recognize that Tony’s list is a power ranking, not necessarily a top prospect list.   

[LookinUp]

Well, the story of that article was 1) he was good, 2) got all out of whack and 3) figured out what made him good and started doing it again.

Hopefully that happens with Lowther, et al too. I just have this bad feeling that the O's are using advanced data and trying to make guys into something that they're not. It will work for some, but might screw guys up in the transition. I don't know. Just a feeling. I have no real evidence to confirm it.