For the first time in his professional baseball career, walks haunted Brandon Williamson during the 2022 season. Split between AA Chattanooga and AAA Louisville, his BB/9 spiked to an unsightly 5.6 in his first stint in the Cincinnati Reds system, up from just 3.0 in 98.1 IP the previous year while still on the Seattle Mariners farm.
Still, the stuff was there, it just needed a little bit of refining - refining that appears to be on display early in camp in Goodyear. It’s earned him early rave reviews and the first start of Cactus League play this weekend.