While the back-end of the Cincinnati Reds rotation has been a hot mess and the bullpen has, more often than not, struggled to find its own way, a pair of 23 year old hurlers have been making their names known across the team’s farm.
Andrew “Hey!” Abbott deserves his own thousand-page novel at this point, but I’ll give him a paragraph for the bare minimum. The UVa product and former 2nd round pick finally surrendered some runs this week - 2 ER in 5.0 IP against the AA Tennessee Smokies on the 19th - but fanned another 11 in his 93 pitch outing.