Justin Armbruester 2023

[Tony-OH]

Strong debut, tossing 5 shutout innings allowing 5 hits, a walk and 4 Ks.

Sat 93-95 with 88-89 cutter, and a 82 sweeper. Didn't see a change but didn't see every pitch as i was watching both Bowie and Delmarva. 

[Frobby]

Another nice outing tonight, 5.1 scoreless, 3 hits, 2 walks, 4 strikeouts.  His ERA is at 1.26.  

[Billy F-Face3]

He's probably the best Orioles minor league pitcher that nobody has heard of. (Only the die hard of die hard fans.) 

This guy is showing to be the real deal.

[Frobby]

Armbruester just keeps getting it done.  Tonight, 5 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 5 K’s.  His ERA is 1.40 in 19.1 IP over 4 starts.  

[Frobby]

Armbruester had another excellent start yesterday, allowing 1 run on 3 hits and a walk in 5 IP, striking out 7.   He’s carrying a 2.17 ERA and a 1.172 WHIP, with 8.1 K/9.   He’s been very consistent, not allowing more than 2 ER in any start this year.

[jdwilde1]

6 innings 4 hits 3 runs (0 earned).  Only K’d 2 and gave up a homer.  He’s really putting together some nice numbers.  Career MiLB numbers are .209 avg, 1.09 WHIP, and 168 Ks in 155.1 innings.

He’s a big guy too, listed at 6’4” 235 lbs.

[Frobby]

12 hours ago, jdwilde1 said:

6 innings 4 hits 3 runs (0 earned).  Only K’d 2 and gave up a homer.  He’s really putting together some nice numbers.  Career MiLB numbers are .209 avg, 1.09 WHIP, and 168 Ks in 155.1 innings.

He’s a big guy too, listed at 6’4” 235 lbs.

He was on the verge of 6 shutout innings when Servideo made an inning-extending error with two outs, one on in the bottom of the 6th.  Then he coughed up a 3-run homer.   Otherwise, sn excellent outing.  He only threw 68 pitches in 6 innings.  

[Frobby]

Five shutout innings for Armbruester.  He’s made 9 starts this year: four where he allowed no earned runs, three where he allowed one earned run, and two where he allowed two earned runs.  He has a 1.40 ERA in 45 innings.  He really hasn’t had a bad outing all year.  

[Aristotelian]

Could be time for a promotion. He pitched 60+ at AA last year and is up to 45 this year. 8.0 K/9 is a little low but I'd like to see what he can do in AAA. 

[Frobby]

Scouting the stat line, it’s a little hard to see what works for him.  He’s a fly ball pitcher (.54 GO/AO rate) who doesn’t strike out that many guys (7.0 K/9), yet he doesn’t allow many hits (6.80 H/9) or homers (0.80 HR/9).   His BABIP has been very low last year (.246) and this one (.242).    So, it seems like he induces a ton of routine fly balls, yet is keeping the ball in the park.  Pretty unusual profile.  

[Aristotelian]

 

1 hour ago, Frobby said:

Scouting the stat line, it’s a little hard to see what works for him.  He’s a fly ball pitcher (.54 GO/AO rate) who doesn’t strike out that many guys (7.0 K/9), yet he doesn’t allow many hits (6.80 H/9) or homers (0.80 HR/9).   His BABIP has been very low last year (.246) and this one (.242).    So, it seems like he induces a ton of routine fly balls, yet is keeping the ball in the park.  Pretty unusual profile.  

Maybe Tyler Wilson as a comp? Odds of success with that profile are low but he's had enough success to see how it plays at AAA. Great baseball name as well.

[Tony-OH]

5 hours ago, Frobby said:

Scouting the stat line, it’s a little hard to see what works for him.  He’s a fly ball pitcher (.54 GO/AO rate) who doesn’t strike out that many guys (7.0 K/9), yet he doesn’t allow many hits (6.80 H/9) or homers (0.80 HR/9).   His BABIP has been very low last year (.246) and this one (.242).    So, it seems like he induces a ton of routine fly balls, yet is keeping the ball in the park.  Pretty unusual profile.  

He really is a perplexing guy to watch pitch. He keeps getting guys out but gets an amazing amount of atcha balls. He seems to give up a decent amount of loud contact but it seemingly always goes right at a fielder. 

I mean, his stat line is pretty impressive overall, but visually scouting him I don't really see why he's been so effective besides throwing strikes (65% strike rate). I'm not sure how sustainable his .242 BABIP is though, but he probably does deserve a chance at AAA.

[Can_of_corn]

Just now, Tony-OH said:

He really is a perplexing guy to watch pitch. He keeps getting guys out but gets an amazing amount of atcha balls. He seems to give up a decent amount of loud contact but it seemingly always goes right at a fielder. 

I mean, his stat line is pretty impressive overall, but visually scouting him I don't really see why he's been so effective besides throwing strikes (65% strike rate). I'm not sure how sustainable his .242 BABIP is though, but he probably does deserve a chance at AAA.

Just going off of that it doesn't sound like someone whose game would translate to the Majors.

[Frobby]

Armbruester makes his AAA debut tonight.  His AA numbers this year: 12 starts, 62.0 IP, 52 H, 21 R, 17 ER, 19 BB, 43 K’s, 2.47 ERA, 1.145 WHIP, 0.7 HR/9, 6.2 K/9, 2.2 K/BB.  His K rate is way down this year (9.0 to 6.2) but his HR rate is too (1.8 to 0.7).   

[Frobby]

Excellent debut: 5.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 7 K’s.   This guy is sneaking up on us.