Brett Conine is having one heck of a season. In a system flush with stud pitching prospects, nobody is having a better season than Conine. How good has he been? How about a 1.65 ERA in Fayetteville, matched by a 1.61 xFIP and a 1.62 FIP. He’s pitched 60 IP across two levels, he’s walked 10 and struck out 82 batters. That’s insane. After 27 overpowering innings at Quad Cities, he moved up to A+ and struck out even more guys, while walking even less!
Conine (no relation to former MLBer Jeff) came to the Astros almost exactly one year ago, as an 11th rounder out of CS Fullerton.