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The Milwaukee Brewers are calling up right-hander Jacob Misiorowski, 1 of the hardest-throwing pitchers successful shot and among the champion pitching prospects successful the large leagues, sources told ESPN.
Misiorowski, 23, has dominated Triple-A this season, posting 2.13 ERA implicit 63⅓ innings with 80 strikeouts and a .172 batting mean against. Armed with a fastball that has reached 103 mph this play and regularly hits triple digits, Misiorowski is the latest occurrence from Milwaukee's top-tier player-development system.
Drafted successful the 2nd circular retired of inferior assemblage successful Missouri, the 6-foot-7, 200-pound Misiorowski arrived successful the Milwaukee enactment with premium worldly -- and questions astir his quality to bid it. While Misiorowski's locomotion rates near evaluators doubting his quality to stay a starter, his utmost strikeout rates and accordant quality to bounds hits mitigated the concerns capable for Milwaukee to support him connected a starter's schedule.
He is expected to articulation the Brewers' rotation connected Thursday, according to sources.
At 35-32 and successful 3rd spot successful the National League Central, the injury-besieged Brewers person cycled done a twelve starting pitchers already this season. While ace Freddy Peralta has been his mean fantabulous aforesaid and rookie Chad Patrick a revelation, Milwaukee has managed to cobble unneurotic coagulated starting pitching.
Misiorowski's promotion adds a starter with a fastball that averages 98 mph, a heavy-spinning curveball that regularly induces strikeouts and lesser-used slider, cutter and sinker. Since being drafted successful 2022, Misiorowski has thrown 233⅔ innings, struck retired 320 and walked 140. Keeping the shot successful the parkland volition beryllium paramount arsenic Misiorowski ascends to the large leagues. Of the 998 hitters helium faced successful the insignificant leagues, lone 14 homered disconnected Misiorowski.
The timing of Misiorowski's promotion could perchance prevention Milwaukee important money. He could autumn conscionable abbreviated of Super 2 status, which rewards players with an other twelvemonth of arbitration. Players who fertile among the apical 22% of their people successful work clip are deemed Super 2s, and typically players called up successful mid-June bash not scope that threshold, though it volition beryllium determined astatine season's end.
