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]

Moving on up

 

[Just Regular]

A few readouts as Forret finishes Low-A.

Fangraphs stats this morning list him age 20 - about one third of the Carolina League pitchers at 30 innings are that age or younger.

Zero BAL Shorebirds arms meet the Fangraphs qualified default of I believe 1 inning/team game, so 30 innings needed to find an Orioles pitcher in early June.

K-bb% 14th of 66 - he is the only pitcher in the Top 30 of that to be at 0.00 HR/9 (a bunch of wild kids in the bottom of the list also have that).

Forret is kind of shaping up for me as a good run so far of what Carter Baumler was meant to be.

Up in the South Atlantic League, looks like just three Age 20 pitchers have covered 30 innings so far, including ATL Owen Murphy ($2.5M class of 2022 high school arm), and PIT's guy from Europe's baseball hotbed San Marino.

[Sports Guy]

Seems like Forret is the 2023 draft version of Showalter but it also seems like they like Forret more.

[LookinUp]

53 minutes ago, Just Regular said:

Forret is kind of shaping up for me as a good run so far of what Carter Baumler was meant to be.

Curse you for even mentioning them in the same sentence!  

I don't expect lightning in a bottle with this kid. Just hope for health and continued development. I'm sure he'll have some ups and downs as he moves up the ladder. 

Good luck in Aberdeen, Forret!

[Tony-OH]

8 hours ago, Sports Guy said:

Seems like Forret is the 2023 draft version of Showalter but it also seems like they like Forret more.

Forret is a much better prospect than Showalter in my opinion. So far he's been a nice development this season. 

[Sports Guy]

3 hours ago, Tony-OH said:

Forret is a much better prospect than Showalter in my opinion. So far he's been a nice development this season. 

Yea that’s the impression I get too.

both guys were later round picks that they paid up to keep but they are moving Forret faster, so that tells me they really like what they see from him early on.