Report: Pirates to promote Luis Ortiz from Indianapolis

The youth motion continues for the Pittsburgh Pirates because it was reported Sunday evening that RHP Luis Ortiz might be promoted from Triple-A Indianapolis on Monday.

Jason Mackey of the Pittsburgh Submit-Gazette reported the transfer, nevertheless there’s been no official announcement from the staff but.

The 23-year-old pitcher has had a wonderful season, to say the least, each with Double-A Altoona and Indianapolis. In 23 begins for the Curve, that spanned simply over 114 innings, Ortiz posted a 5-9 report with a 4.64 ERA however struck out 126 hitters in comparison with 34 walks.

The brunt of Ortiz’s success got here in August with Altoona as he allowed simply 9 earned runs over 28 innings pitched. In three of these appearances, he went six or extra innings. However let’s not overlook that he tossed not one, however two immaculate innings over the course of the season.

All of his work even earned him the No. 30 spot within the group’s Prime 30 prospects, in accordance with MLB Pipeline.

Seeking to capitalize on his success, the Pirates promoted Ortiz to Indianapolis initially of September and, since then, he’s exceeded expectations.

After a shaky debut on September 2, which noticed Ortiz quit 4 earned runs in 4 innings, he picked issues again up in his subsequent outing on the ninth, which noticed him maintain opposing hitters hitless via six.

That is in all probability a “Contreras Therapy” state of affairs, the place he’ll come up, toss just a few innings, and get despatched proper again down, which is ok contemplating his fast rise to fame over the course of the season.

Possibly, and hopefully, this additionally spells the top of the Bryse Wilson or Tyler Beede experiment.