Padres Might Promote Pitching Prospect
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by Matt Snyder Filed under: Padres, NL West, Minor LeaguesIt's been quite the whirlwind season for Mat Latos, the top pitching prospect in the San Diego Padres' system. He began all the way down in low-A ball with the Fort Wayne Wizards -- which is three full levels from the major leagues. After dominating for 25 1/3 innings (3-0, 0.36 ERA, 27 strikeouts, 3 walks), he bypassed Class-A-Advanced and went straight to Double-A. For Double-A San Antonio, things weren't much different for the 21-year-old right-hander, as he compiled a 5-1 record with a 1.91 ERA and 46 strikeouts to only 9 walks. It now appears the spotless inning Latos threw ...
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Latos likely to be called up by Padres
Gaslamp Ball —
Latos likely to be called up by Padres
San Diego general manager Kevin Towers said late Monday that the Padres are "having internal discussions about the possibility" of purchasing Latos' contract, adding him to the 40-man roster and sticking him in the starting rotation.
The call-up? Mat Latos coming soon
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MLB.com reports that the San Diego Padres are expected to call up top pitching prospect Mat Latos, perhaps by this weekend. Latos has impressed in his 9 starts at AA this season compiling a 1.91 ERA, 0.87 WHIP with a .194 BAA. His K/BB rate is a stellar 5.11 with a 8.81 K/9 and 1.72 BB/9.
Latos features a fastball that can routinely sit in mid 90's while topping out at 96-97 mph. He also throws a curve/slider and developing changeup, though he's mostly fastball-slider/curve at this point.
Run support will be hard to come by with the ...
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... that I've been pitching really good lately and I kind of needed a wake-up call," Bell said. "And this was a very good wakeup call because it doesn't count on my record. I didn't ruin it for the Padres."
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Latos likely to be called up by Padres | padres.com: News All indications are that one of those ...
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... as the starter, who pitched very well in his 2009 debut last week, but indicates Latos is likely to be called up in coming days. ...
Calling on Latos
Friar Forecast —
by Daniel Gettinger
Corey Brock is reporting that the Padres are likely to call up pitcher Mat Latos “this weekend for a start against the Rockies at PETCO Park.” Latos has dominated minor league pitchers this season. In 47 AA innings, he has 46 strikeouts to only 9 walks. He has not yet allowed a homerun. Stats aside, while he may be close to ready to face major league batters, I am indifferent about this move.
Because Latos has thrown only 56 innings in each of his past 2 seasons, a Latos call-up is likely to be short lived. He has already thrown 72 innings this season, and assuming the Padres will ...
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Adam Rubin of The NY Daily News says an AL official indicated that the recently DFA'd Julio Lugo has been working out at the Mets complex in the Dominican Republic, and expects the team to sign the shortstop once he clears waivers and is released.
Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports says Matt ...
Latos to Start In San Diego on Sunday
Baseball in Fort Wayne —
Tomorrow, Mat Latos will make his Major League debut when he takes the mound for the San Diego Padres against the Colorado Rackies. When he does so, he will have gone from A-Ball to the Majors is what amounts to half a season. Granted, this was not his first year in A-ball:
He made his professional debut with the short-season Single-A Eugene Emeralds in 2007, going 1-4 with a 3.83 ERA, although he struck out 74 in 56 1/3 innings. Latos was limited to 56 innings last season with three low Single-A and Rookie teams due to spending three months on the disabled list with a sore shoulder. After spending time in the Padres’ major league camp this spring, Latos’start of the ...
Closing Time: Mat Latos fastballs will one day power San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter
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In his major league debut against Colorado,
premiere Padres prospect Mat Latos bedazzled several Rockies
hitter, pounding the strike-zone with persistent 94-98 mph gas. Limited to just
75 pitches, he tossed four strong innings, yielding two runs on three hits. He
also logged a dynamite 4:1 K:BB split.
Scouts have marveled about his hard-cutting mid-90s
fastball. Today, his four-seamer was occasionally overpowering. His fierce
slider and straight change, a pitch he worked tirelessly mastering this past
spring, were also effective. Outside leaving a fastball up against Ian Stewart,
his location was very impressive.
Mentally, insiders ...
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