Right-hander Aaron Civale is expected to start for the Indians on Saturday against the Tigers, Zack Meisel of The Athletic tweets. Civale is not yet on the Indians’ 40-man roster, which is currently at capacity.
This will be the first major league promotion for the 24-year-old Civale, who joined the Tribe as a third-round pick out of Northeastern University in the 2016 draft. FanGraphs (No. 22) and MLB.com (No. 24) each regard Civale as one of the Indians’ top 30 prospects. Kiley McDaniel and Eric Longenhagen of FanGraphs wrote in April that “Civale does not miss many bats because he has limited fastball velocity, but he’s a high-volume strike thrower with excellent secondary stuff, including one of the best curveball spin rates in the minors.”
So far in 2019, Civale has used what FanGraphs calls a “spacious bag of tricks” to record a 2.85 ERA with 8.8 K/9 and 2.2 BB/9 in seven starts and 41 innings divided between the Double-A and Triple-A levels. He’ll now temporarily take over in the Indians’ rotation for Mike Clevinger, whom they placed on the injured list Friday. Clevinger may only miss one start, so Civale’s first stint in Cleveland’s starting staff could be a short one.
somthing must give when the other staters come back…Bauer might just get traded.
Spacious bag of tricks is baseball’s equivalent of huge tracks of land.
Or a bridge for sale in Brooklyn.
Tracts?
Yes thanks. I was auto-corrected.
DOH!
This kid might just surprise the doubters.
Bauer’s on the move soon! Should bring up Bradley too and release Martin who is a big disappointment this year
Bauer’s on the move soon, but why won’t they bring up Bobby Bradley and release Martin whose been a disappointment to say the least all year
Agreed.