Zeke Spruill sent down

by Mr. Sanchez on Jul 30, 2009 12:50 PM EDT

After a strong showing in Rome, the young righty from Marietta has been demoted to the Gulf Coast League.

http://rome.braves.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090727&content_id=6087644&vkey=pr_t432&fext=.jsp&sid=t432

In other Rome, second year standout pitcher news, Brett Devall injured elbow seems likely to keep him out for the rest of the year and may require surgery according to the Rome News Tribune.

http://romenews-tribune.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Top+prospects+for+Rome+Braves+have+mixed+results%20&id=3032891&instance=home_news_lead_story

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Why?

Any idea why the organization would do something like that? Trade? Trying to limit his innings?

by Southern IN Chopper on Jul 30, 2009 12:56 PM EDT reply actions

Injury

Could it be that he is hurt? Maybe this is a way to avoid putting Zeke on the DL.

by atl14yearsschaffer on Jul 30, 2009 1:19 PM EDT reply actions

can’t imagine it’d be to avoid putting him on the DL since he’d still be using a roster spot in GCL if that were the case. Hopefully someone around here can answer the why, because that certainly seems like a good question with the way he’s been pitching.

by Mr. Sanchez on Jul 30, 2009 1:26 PM EDT reply actions

They only do this when a player is hurt and they don’t wanna put him on the DL. No one panic, everyone move along. Nothing to see here.

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by bigjoe on Jul 30, 2009 4:32 PM EDT reply actions

My guess is that they had a specific number of innings they wanted him to pitch this year and he reached that, so they’re essentially shutting him down.

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by cbwilk on Jul 30, 2009 4:50 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

+1
also will give some of the + performers for Danville to come up and give things a go in Rome

by yondaime4 on Jul 30, 2009 5:03 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Teheran?

Pete Rose was actually banned from baseball for teaching Jeff Francoeur how to play. He made up the gambling stuff to hide his shame.

by VivaLosBravos on Jul 30, 2009 5:36 PM EDT up reply actions

After tonight? Why not?

by yondaime4 on Jul 30, 2009 11:09 PM EDT up reply actions

Jesus...

Shit yeah.

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by MichaelProcton on Jul 31, 2009 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions

(I only looked up his line after your comment)

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by MichaelProcton on Jul 31, 2009 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions

Jeff Locke

Last season, Jeff Locke had some of this stuff going on. I can’t remember the details exactly, but he was ‘demoted’ Danville, but he never actually left Rome. He came out of the clubhouse in Rome after a game when he was supposedly in Danville, and he just said it had to do with shuffling rosters and such. I’m not saying this is the case with Zeke, but it could be something similar.

by secondbass on Jul 30, 2009 5:13 PM EDT reply actions

Teams do that a lot with the rosters to get extra guys. They don’t have a set time a guy has to stay down like the Majors do, so they can make those paper moves and really end up keeping an extra pitcher or 2 on a roster for good chunks of the season. It’s especially prevalent the early part of the year when those short season teams aren’t playing.

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by cbwilk on Jul 30, 2009 5:56 PM EDT up reply actions

Kimbrel

In similar news, it looks like Craig Kimbrel has been promoted to Mississippi. I don’t have a link cause it was posted on his facebook. Good for him. He’s nasty

by sunking1056 on Jul 30, 2009 6:33 PM EDT reply actions