Josh Edgin Makes First Rehab Appearance In St. Lucie Win

St. Lucie Mets @ Jupiter Hammerheads

April 10, 2016

Josh Edgin @ Jorgan Cavanerio

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
St. Lucie	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	0		4	12	0
Jupiter	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2		3	7	1

W: Knapp (1-0, 0.00 ERA); Cavanerio (0-1, 8.31 ERA); Save: Coles (1)

MiLB.com Boxscore

The Highlights:

Pitchers

Josh Edgin (13.50 ERA) – 0.2 IP, H, R, BB, SO, 27 Pitches (15 Strikes), 1 FO

Ricky Knapp (W, 1-0, 0.00 ERA) – 5.1 IP, 4 H, 4 K, 78 Pitches (56 Strikes), 5 GO: 3 FO, 1 IR – 0 S

Alberto Baldonado (H, 1, 4.50 ERA) – 1 IP, 2 K, 1 GO

Robert Coles (S, 1, 4.50 ERA) – 2 IP, 2 H, 2 R, HR, 1 GO: 3 FO

Batters

CF – Champ Stuart – 1-4, BB, 2 SO

SS – Amed Rosario – 2-5, R, SO

DH – Michael Katz – 1-4, SO

LF – John Mora – 1-4, R, 2B (2), RBI (4)

C – Lednier Ricardo – 2-4, 2 R, 2B (1)

1B – Kevin Taylor – 3-4, RBI (1)

3B – Jhoan Urena – 1-4, RBI (2), GIDP

RF – Patrick Biondi – 1-4, RBI (1), SO

Recapish

            Mets lefty reliever Josh Edgin took the next step in his journey back to the majors by beginning his rehab assignment with St. Lucie Sunday afternoon. Edgin was wild and failed to finish the 1^st inning, but Ricky Knapp took over and picked up where he left off in 2015 with Savannah. The St. Lucie offense was threatening all night, with 8 of the 9 batters combining for 12 hits, but they could only push across the 4 runs. That seemed like more than enough as Robert Coles went back out to the mound in the 9^th, but he’d allow a 2R homerun before recording an out, which made it a one run game. But Coles would induce fly outs to CF from the next 3 batters to hold on for the win, which bumped St. Lucie to 3-1 on the season.

Edgin last pitched in a game on September 23, 2014, so it must’ve felt great just to get back out there. He was great for the Mets during that 2014 season, pitching to just a 1.32 ERA thanks to some long scoreless streaks – he went 13 appearance and later 17 appearance without a run allowed. The stadium gun was down in the 1^st, but the announcers thought he was throwing hard, “you can see the power is there… it’s all about the location,” (That was from Elliot, I think it's Elliot Brownstein). The gun did report 2 fastballs in the mid-80’s while he faced Tyler Ard, which would represent a significant decrease in velocity for Edgin, but I haven’t seen any reports of his velocity elsewhere to confirm that. They called 16 of his pitches, and gave location information on a few more of his pitches, so I put together a partial pitch log below.

Notes: John Mora picked up an RBI for the 4^th straight game and is off to a great start for St. Lucie; Amed Rosario continues to hit early; Lednier Ricardo (28) and Kevin Taylor (24) made their 2016 debut and combined for 5 of the 12 hits; Wuilmer Becerra was removed during Saturday’s game and will probably be out of the lineup a few more days with what Adam MacDonald described as ‘a nagging injury’ – if I find out anything else I’ll be sure to share it. St. Lucie returns home Monday to face Dunedin, with either Scarlyn Reyes or Casey Delgado scheduled to pitch in the rotation next.

Pitcher Coverage

Josh Edgin

27 Pitches – 15 Strikes – 3 Swinging

First pitch strike to ¾ batters

1^st inning

       1)   Dexter Kjerstad walked (BB)

a.     Fastball – ball 1-0, high

b.     – ball 2-0, low and inside

c.      Fastball – called strike 2-1, on the outside corner

d.     Breaking ball – ball 3-0, high

e.     Fastball – ball 4, sails wide

       2)   Brian Schales grounded a single back up the middle (S8/G) Kjerstad went to 3B on the hit, and Schales went to 2B on the throw in

a.     Fastball – called strike 0-1

b.     – ball 1-1, outside

c.      Slider – called strike 1-2, outside corner

d.     – foul 1-2

e.     – foul 1-2

f.      – ball 2-2, outside

g.     Fastball – ball 3-2, high

h.     – foul 3-2

i.       – foul 3-2

j.       In play

       3)   Brian Anderson struck out swinging (K/Sw)

a.     Slider – swinging strike 0-1

b.     Fastball – ball 1-1, outside

c.      – ball 2-1, high (“So high that Lednier Ricardo had to jump out of his stance to catch it”)

d.     – foul 2-2

e.     Slider – ball 3-2, outside

f.      Slider – swinging strike 3
Marc Valdes came out to check if he wanted to continue

       4)   Taylor Ard hit a sac fly to RF (SF9/F)

a.     86 MPH Fastball – called strike 0-1

b.     Fastball – swinging strike 0-2 (high, check swing)

c.      Slider – ball 1-2, just outside

d.     85 MPH Fastball – ball 2-2, high

e.     – foul 2-2

f.      Slider

Ricky Knapp

Table 2 – Knapp pitch stats by inning

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	Total
Total	5	11	12	14	19	17	78
Strikes	4	8	8	9	14	13	56
Swinging*	2	1	1	2	2	2	10

*12.8% Swinging strike rate

First pitch strike to 11/19 batters faced

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