Michael Forret 2024

[btdart20]

1 hour ago, RZNJ said:

It’s April and he’s thrown 13 innings.  I imagine if he throws 2-4 more starts like the last two he’ll get a quick promotion to Aberdeen.   

Yeah, the limited IP so far is small.  But it feels like he's not at the right level of competition. Of course it's also as much competing against himself (pitch shape, location, etc. that the team tracks) as against the hitters too.  Like you mentioned elsewhere, he's younger than DeLeon.

[EdwinRip]

4IP 1H 1BB 7Ks

[CaptainRedbeard]

Lot of young pitchers at A that look like they should be moved to A+ soon for more of a challenge. Forret, De Leon and Cooper have been dominant. Bragg and Money have also pitched very well in K/BB but without the expected ERA results.

[Yossarian]

Forret just gets more and more intriguing with every appearance.   It's there a reason why he doesn't pitch more than 4 or 5 innings in his starts?

[Rbiggs2525]

6 hours ago, Yossarian said:

Forret just gets more and more intriguing with every appearance.   It's there a reason why he doesn't pitch more than 4 or 5 innings in his starts?

Orioles are known to be very conservative with pitch counts early in a pitchers career. You will not see a pitcher go over 80 pitches until they get to Bowie.

[RZNJ]

6 hours ago, Yossarian said:

Forret just gets more and more intriguing with every appearance.   It's there a reason why he doesn't pitch more than 4 or 5 innings in his starts?

He’s 20 years old and it’s his first year of professional ball.  Pitch limits.

[Just Regular]

The fantasy people at BP slotted him (and Moises Chace) ahead of Baumeister/Seth Johnson in their rankings update this morning.

JuCo at 19 last spring, it looks like he got 86 innings, which is probably more than Sigbot would have let a high school guy go.

His age is almost exactly the Basallo-Holliday midpoint - the report shows them today at 19.76, 20.11 and 20.45.

[Just Regular]

FIve more shutout innings this afternoon.

Thomas Sosa backed him with another HR, but the bullpen couldn't hold it.

[Just Regular]

Fuzzy Forret night - just 3 swing and misses in 68 pitches, but those 68 pitches also resulted in 5.2 innings of 1 run ball.

Opponent might have been a Cleveland Guardians contact-oriented outfit.

Forret is an interesting demographic as he is close enough to a high school pitcher and Elias gave him close enough to real money.    Plus his JuCo let him have more length in 13th grade than an org maybe would have.

He's still pitching well, and I'm curious to see how long they let him go as the summer wears on.

[Sports Guy]

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