August 25th Pitching Highlights

Vero Beach's LHSP Brandon Mann, our 27th rounder in 2002, had a solid start but dropped to 3-11 on the year:

Pitcher	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO
Mann	6.0	7	3	1	1	6

Mann's ERA is dependent on his GB%. Here are his GB% and ERA by month:

April: 54% 4.05
May: 54% 3.16
June: 39% 6.67
July: 53% 3.05
August: 36% 7.20


Princeton's LHSP Matt Moore, 8th round in 2007, was excellent again but didn't get the win because the bullpen blew up:

Pitcher	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO
Moore	5.0	3	0	0	1	4

In August, Moore has pitched 24 innings, given up 1 ER, struck out 30 and walked 8. He hasn't given up a HR all year.


Hudson Valley's RHRP Marquis Fleming, our 24th round pick in 2008, has been great lately with another a scoreless outing in relief last night:

Pitcher	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO
Fleming	2.2	0	0	0	1	1

Fleming's ERA by month:
June: 1.93
July: 5.90
August: 0.00

Fleming's YTD ERA:
Home: 0.00
Away: 3.32


And Durham's RHSP Jeff Niemann had an off night but the team held on to win 9-8:

Pitcher	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO
Niemann	6.0	5	4	1	3	6

YTD totals on the four:

Pitcher	Age	G	GS	IP	ERA	FIP	DIPS	SO/9	BB/9	H/9	HR/9
Mann	24.3	23	21	118.2	4.70	4.14	4.11	7.0	2.7	9.9	1.1
Moore	19.2	11	11	49.1	1.82	1.52	1.55	13.3	3.3	4.9	0.0
Fleming	21.9	12	0	25.0	2.88	4.04	3.86	9.7	3.6	8.3	1.1
Niemann	25.4	22	22	119.1	3.54	4.05	4.11	8.4	3.5	6.9	1.1