Sal Romano was named to the Baseball America Prospect Hot Sheet earlier today for his performance last week. This is just more accolades for the right hander, who was also named the Southern League Pitcher of the Week.
The Pensacola Blue Wahoos starting pitcher has been on an absolute tear over his last eight starts, where he has posted a 2.35 ERA in 46.0 innings with just seven walks and 45 strikeouts.
Last week he posted a 0.69 ERA in 13.0 innings with no walks and 12 strikeouts. Here’s what Ben Badler had to say about him in the writeup:
A jumbo-framed 6-foot-5, 260 pounds, Romano has a powerful fastball that parks in the mid-90s and can reach the upper-90s. If Romano does end up moving to the bullpen, as many scouts predict he will, expect more of those high-end velo numbers airing it out in short stints. While there’s effort and energy to his delivery, Romano is able to repeat fairly well and fill up the strike zone, with just 2.2 walks per nine innings this season.
Sal Romano is currently 5th in the Southern League in innings pitched with 116.2. He’s also second in strikeouts with 112. His strikeout-to-walk ratio of 3.86 is tops in the league for pitchers with more than 75.0 innings pitched.
He’s rebounded well after a tough June that saw him post a 5.63 ERA in five starts and walk 12 batters with just 15 strikeouts on the month. Outside of June, he’s posted these numbers: 3.39 ERA in 92.2 innings with 17 walks and 97 strikeouts to go along with a WHIP of 1.12. All of that at the age of 22-years-old. There are only four pitchers in the Southern League that are under 22 with at least 50.0 innings pitched, making Romano one of the youngest guys on the circuit (along with teammates Nick Travieso and Jackson Stephens. Tyler Mahle, who is just 21-years-old, has 44.1 innings for the Blue Wahoos as well as they have what has to be the youngest rotation in the league at this point).