MiLB.com Pitchers of the Week

[IMarkOutForDubois]

http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/app/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050704&content_id=14191&vkey=news_milb&fext=.jsp

 

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Pacific Coast League

Juan Cruz, Sacramento

2 G, 2 GS, 0 CG, 0 SHO, 1-0, 0.73 ERA, 12.1 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 4 BB, 21 SO, 0 SV

The A's brass said they sent Juan Cruz to Triple-A to get his confidence back, and if his last two starts are any indication, the demotion did the trick. Cruz, who has spent the majority of the past five seasons in the Majors, was optioned to Sacramento on June 17 after seeing his ERA balloon to 8.49 in 21 games with Oakland. He's gone progressively deeper in each of his three starts, including two dominant performances last week, in which the 26-year-old Dominican struck out 21 batters in just 12 1/3 innings. Cruz fanned 10 in 5 1/3 shutout innings against Portland on June 27, but the Beavers rallied for two runs in the top of the ninth to beat the River Cats, 2-1. On July 3, Cruz yielded just one earned run on three hits and a walk while striking out 11 in seven innings of a 5-2 win over Salt Lake.

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Sounds like Cruz could be worse off.

[ctcf]

In before move!

[IMarkOutForDubois]

"Where we movin' to, Thunder?"

 

You can't tell me that general baseball talk that happens to be about another team's minor leaguer AND A FORMER MAJOR LEAGUE CUB belongs in another section.

 

EDIT: Ah, heck. What can y'do? Alright, so this is Minor League Discussion now.

Edited July 12, 2005 by IMarkOutForDubois

[burnt out cubbie fan]

I still miss him. Hey, how are Pratt and Lewis doing? Oh yeah... :x :( :cry:

[texascub]

I think this is really what he needed. He got called up from AA and pretty much stayed up. While he was successful, he still needed a little bit more time to get everything together.