Lansing Lugnuts - Pitching Update

Player	Age	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	H	HR	BB	SO	WHIP	SO/9	SO/BB
Henderson Alvarez	19	4	4	3.00	10	10	0	57.0	56	0	7	35	1.105	5.5	5.0
John Anderson	20	1	3	4.98	10	10	0	47.0	68	3	14	37	1.745	7.1	2.6
Dustin Antolin	19	0	1	3.48	6	0	1	10.1	8	0	4	8	1.161	7.0	2.0
Michael Barbara	24	0	4	10.20	12	0	1	15.0	33	3	9	14	2.800	8.4	1.6
Chad Beck	24	0	1	4.91	3	3	0	11.0	15	1	3	12	1.636	9.8	4.0
Jonas Cuotto	22	1	3	6.00	14	2	0	33.0	45	1	10	29	1.667	7.9	2.9
Matthew Daly	22	1	3	2.05	21	0	9	22.0	11	0	12	18	1.045	7.4	1.5
Frank Gailey	23	1	1	1.80	18	0	0	25.0	21	1	12	24	1.320	8.6	2.0
Charles Huggins	--	1	1	1.59	7	7	0	34.0	24	1	11	40	1.029	10.6	3.6
Ryan Koch	--	1	4	9.44	10	6	0	41.0	70	2	11	16	1.976	3.5	1.5
Chase Lirette	24	1	0	1.33	4	4	0	20.1	14	0	6	15	0.984	6.6	2.5
Yorman Mayora	22	3	2	6.66	17	0	1	24.1	27	3	13	30	1.644	11.1	2.3
Matthew Moody	23	0	0	2.81	15	0	1	16.0	13	1	10	19	1.438	10.7	1.9
Jared Potts	23	2	0	3.46	17	0	0	26.0	28	0	12	28	1.538	9.7	2.3
Josh Wells	22	3	5	7.50	9	9	0	42.0	56	6	17	29	1.738	6.2	1.7

The Lugnuts pitching is a lot better than its hitting, but is still slightly younger than the league average (21.7 year old average for Lansing to 21.8 league average). The star of the pitching staff is Henderson Alvarez, who could in all likelihood skip HiA altogether and join AA at some point this season. He is a very good reason to get excited about the Jays future, as you can tell by his stats while being one of the youngest starters in the league. He walks very few, 1.1 every 9 innings, but still has to hone down the number of hits he allows, 8.8 per 9 innings. It's not that he allows too many now, but how it will translate to higher levels that is a bit worrisome. Chuck Higgins is another star that was pitching for Lansing, but has since been promoted to HiA Dunedin. John Anderson and Ryan Koch have had a rough start to their season as the other starters, but Chase Lirette has surprised a ton when given the opportunity to start but is already too old for the LoA level. He'd need to be this effective at the AA level to make some real noise and could get an opportunity in HiA soon. The most impressive reliever in Lansing is Matt Daley, who has 9 saves and a nice 7.4 SO/9IP ratio. He is on par age wise and could get a nice jump to HiA if opportunities arise.