Cincinnati Reds 2012 First Rounder Nick Travieso made his full season debut for Dayton on Monday night. His line was so-so as he threw 4 innings with 6 hits, 4 runs, 1 walk and 3 strikeouts. When you look at the line, it seems like he got hit around a bit, but it was one of those games where they just happened to hit it where the defense wasn’t.
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Fastball – Travieso was sitting at 93-95 MPH with his fastball and hit 97. He had good control of the pitch and was able to paint the corners often with it. The pitch can be a bit straight at times, but comes back in on righties late at other times.
Slider – The pitch was inconsistent throughout the game. Sometimes it wasn’t good, but it flashed itself a few times as being a strong pitch with hard downward bite.
Change Up – For a pitch he didn’t use much last year the change up looked good in limited action with decent run and tumble.
Control – As noted with the fastball, he showed good control most of the night, particularly with his fastball. His slider control will need to improve over what he showed on Monday evening, but there were times where he was able to throw it where he wanted to.
Other notes – Travieso shows clean mechanics and repeated them well. He doesn’t look like he is using much effort or throwing hard, but the ball gets there quickly. He is a real fast worker. He gets the ball and is ready to come to the plate. Prior to the game there was some talk from extended spring training that the last game he threw before being promoted to Dayton was “the best game in extended spring training” that the evaluator had ever seen and that at the same age, he is further along than Robert Stephenson was at this time last year.
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