How Sweet it is: meet the farm’s hottest pitcher

MiLB.com The past few weeks on the farm have been a little mixed. On the one hand, prospect promotions! Logan Gilbert, Cal Raleigh, and Ljay Newsome all made the well-deserved jump to Double-A, pitchers Clay Chandler and Steven Moyers are Modesto Nuts, and 2019 draftee Austin Shenton earned a trip to Low-A after torching the Northwest League. On the flip side... nearly all of these guys are struggling. Calboy is lugging around a rough 44 wRC+ in Arkansas while opposing teams have run wild on him, Ljay’s strikeouts have vanished in his first couple starts at the level, Gilbert had a couple of rough, unlucky outings, and Chandler has been hit around in Modesto. While prospects struggling at a new level certainly doesn’t spell doom, it’s taken the wind out of a few sails lately.

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