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The season got out to a strong start for Jon Moscot. He got the start on April 14th for the Louisville Bats and threw 5.2 shutout innings against Columbus, walking just two batters and striking out six. He would follow that up with a quality start on the road in Toledo, allowing two runs in 6.0 innings with a walk and six strikeouts. The next time out was a bit more of a struggle, but he allowed just two runs over 5.0 innings. He did walk four batters though, striking out four along the way. Those would be his only three starts of the month and he’d post a 2.16 ERA in 16.2 innings with seven walks and 16 strikeouts.
May began with another struggle with control. Against Lehigh Valley he would allow three runs in 6.0 innings with four walks and two strikeouts. That was followed up by perhaps his best start of the season. The right hander would allow just one run over 8.0 innings with two walks and seven strikeouts. Moscot would allow two runs over 7.0 innings in his next start against Gwinnett with a walk and two strikeouts. An unearned run is all he would allow in the next start, spanning 6.0 innings against Norfolk with two strikeouts. Toledo would have their way on the 25th. They would tag the Bats starter for eight runs in 4.2 innings. It would be the only non-quality start of the month. He’d rebound on the final day of the month with one run allowed over 6.0 innings with three walks and three strikeouts against Pawtucket. He would finish with a 3.58 ERA on the month over 37.2 innings with 12 walks and 18 strikeouts.
June would be a big month for Moscot. He would get the call up to the big leagues and make his debut on June 5th against the Padres. He would have some early struggles in his debut, but would settle in. He’d give up four runs in 5.0 innings with three walks and three strikeouts. The next time out would go much better as he would allow just two runs in 6.0 innings against the Phillies. In what would turn out to be his final start of the year, he would last just 0.2 innings against the Tigers. In the first inning he would run down a base runner and dive to make the tag, but in the process he would injure his non-throwing shoulder. He would have to have surgery to have it fixed and would miss the remainder of the season.
| Team | ERA | IP | H | HR | BB | K | WHIP |
| Louisville | 3.15 | 54.1 | 50 | 5 | 19 | 34 | 1.27 |
| Cincinnati | 4.63 | 11.2 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 1.37 |
Scouting Report
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Fastball | He works mostly with a 4-seam fastball in the 91-94 MPH range, touching 96 this season. He did mix in a 2-seamer a little more often than in the past and it works more in the 89-92 MPH range. The 2-seamer has good arm-side running action to it.
Slider | The better of his two breaking balls, his slider rates out as an above-average pitch that works in the low 80’s. It’s a pitch that he can manipulate to get more of a hard biting slider or give it movement on both planes (with a little less biting action and a little more sweeping action).
Curveball | It’s a fringe-average offering most of the time in the mid-to-upper 70’s.
Change Up | The change up is an average offering in the low 80’s. It has a little bit of sink to it and some fading action.
The injury cost Jon Moscot plenty of valuable developmental time as he would have been given plenty of rope during the season to work as the Reds were trying out anyone and everyone in the rotation. The right hander is more polish than he is upside, showing off only one above-average pitch. Generally though, he can throw all four of his pitches for strikes and mixes and matches things well. He’s a flyball pitcher, which could be troublesome in the Cincinnati home ballpark. He profiles more as a #4 caliber starter, but he’s close to being that kind of pitcher right now without much improvement.
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