Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
June 08, 2004
Who is this Guy?

Clint Nageotte threw six shutout innings against the Astros in his first major league start. Given that Houston is one of the better hitting teams in baseball, that's quite impressive. It turns out that Nageotte has had an impressive minor league career. His strikeout rates have been phenonemal at every level of the minor leagues (10.7 per 9), so it should come as no surprise that he struck out eight last night. The Astros were impressed with his slider.


Nageotte mostly used his fastball and slider, getting most of his strikeouts with the latter pitch.

"That was a great slider," Ensberg said. "It's very late breaking. The first one he threw to me came at my hip, and all of the sudden it broke. I thought it was going to hit me. I didn't think it would bite that much, but it did and it was a strike."


He's still a bit wild, walking three last night, but so was Randy Johnson at the start of his career. It will be fun to see how this pitcher develops.


Posted by David Pinto at 09:56 AM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
Comments

The Astros always get used by pitchers new to the major leagues. I have no idea why that is, but it's been the case for years.

Posted by: Rafe at June 8, 2004 11:22 AM

jeff kent is a sore loser and a crybaby. HE'S the one who left all those runners on base. he's to old to act that immature.

Posted by: lisa gray at June 8, 2004 09:37 PM