Although the starting pitching for the big league Tribe has been pretty bad (sans Aaron Laffey today), the aces of the top three Cleveland Indians farm teams each had superb outings in their last start. The pitching in the system has been a concern as there seems to not be a ton of power arms. Well, that has changed as Rondon and De La Cruz bring the heat, while the other has the array of pitches to become a solid starter in the majors (Huff).David Huff helped lead Columbus to a victory Wednesday, going five innings, allowing one run on five hits while striking out three. Huff will be seen up in Cleveland sometime this summer if continues to put together quality starts like he has done so far early this season.
21 year old phenom Hector Rondon pitched another gem down in Akron today, going five and two-thirds innings, allowing one earned run on four hits while striking out five to earn his second win of the year. Indians play by play man Tom Hamilton mentioned Rondon today during the telecast and intimated that this kid is not too far away from the big leagues at all.
Lastly, the best pitching performance came Tuesday when Kinston's Kelvin De La Cruz threw six shutout innings, allowing four hits and striking out a whopping nine batters. De La Cruz has already struck out 19 batters in only 12 innings this season. If this lefty keeps it up, a quick promotion for the 20 year old up to Akron by June would not be out of the realm of possibility.
The arms are there in the Indians organization, let's just hope we see some of these guys pitch in meaningful games up in Cleveland this year and not when the club is 15 games out.
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