9-News: 38.064 – Top Prospect O’Macken Lost For Year

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9-News: 38.064 – Top Prospect O’Macken Lost For Year

Post by RonCo » Mon Apr 22, 2019 1:27 pm

YS9 MINOR LEAGUE DEPTH TESTED


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While the YS9 parent team has enjoyed a relatively injury-free season (he says, bringing down all the bad ju-ju he can), the club’s minor leagues haven’t been so rosey, especially when it comes to pitchers (naturally). The latest spree of injuries include a tough torn rotator cuff diagnosis for Irishman Tiernan O’Macken.

O’Macken (19), a hard-throwing lefty who has mostly started in the minors, but is seen more as a stopper/closer kind pitcher in the majors, has been on the team’s top 10 prospect list since he was discovered in the spring of 2035. He’s been in A-ball this season, throwing a respectable 4.56 ERA in a swingman role (18 games from the bullpen, three starts).

“It’s a shame to hear,” said assistant GM Phillip Watson. “Our scouts said his pitches were really fleshing out this year. The spin rate was up on his slider, and the fastball (which registers 99 already on the Blow You Away Heater-scale) was popping.

The pitcher will be unable to pick up a baseball for as many as eight months, clearly shutting him down for the season.

DL FILLING UP


It was the second such injury to a young Nine pitcher that most diligent fans would recognize, the first being 21-year-old Knud Calkhoven (9/6/9 Talents), who was shut down with shoulder tendinitis, but who may well return before the season is out. Calkhoven, too, is seen as another high-profile swing man, and was in the top 10 of the team’s prospect lists. This week also saw shorter-term injuries to #1 pick Frank Cameron (10/8/6 Talents) and starter Lionel Gerard (4/2/3 Talents) in short-A Guantanamo, as well as an injury to Guantanamo’s Martin Martinez (9/5/4 Talents), who will not be placed on the DL at this time.

NINE FRONT OFFICE TO REVIEW PROCEDURES

The depth of the team’s hospital register is rumored to have initiated a total shake-down of the team’s medical procedures, to be led by team doctor Julian Carmona, a world class physician who runs a stable of medical personnel that was reported to be the finest doctorial collective in existence at the time of their signing.

“We’re not panicking,” said Watson, who sounded a lot like he was panicking, “ but it’s really important to us that we figure out what’s going on, and try to stop the … um … bleeding.”

Until that time, though, it’s next man up throughout the entire organization.

One door closes, as the saying goes, and another opens.
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Re: 9-News: 38.064 – Top Prospect O’Macken Lost For Year

Post by recte44 » Tue Apr 23, 2019 10:46 am

Calkhoven is such a weird prospect. Have we ever seen a guy like that that just has no stuff developed??

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