Shane Beiber was the worst pitcher in the Indians organization tonight!

 HISTORICAL NIGHT HAPPENED TONIGHT IN THE INDIANS ORGANIZATION

There are certain moments in doing what I am doing here that only come along maybe once is a career.   Not that what I do here classifies as a career...but you know what I am talking about.  The headline of this post is something you will likely NEVER see again unless Beiber gets bombed early for a lot of runs.   Could happen but I doubt it, and NEVER when he only gives up 2 runs in 6.2 innings.

Let's check out the pitching tonight on the major and minor league teams tonight in the Indians' system:

Major League:

Beiber was 'bombed' for 2 runs in 6 2/3 innings over 121 pitches (more on that later)

Karinchak 1.1 scoreless

Clase: 1 scoreless

AAA 

McCarty 6 scoreless

Broom 1 scoreless

Gose 1 scoreless

Johnson 1 scoreless

AA

Lingos 5 scoreless

Arias 2 scoreless

Mikolajchak 2 scoreless

High A

Gaddis 5 scoreless (and hitless)

Ocker 3 scoreless

Rholl 1 scoreless

Low A

Curry 5 scoreless

Mock 4 innings 1 R

So, Beiber, time to up your game because every pitcher in the Indians minor league system put you to shame tonight.

The simple fact is that our minor league pitchers were as dominant tonight as I ever remember them being.  

36 innnings, 16 hits, 1 R, 7 BB, 43 K.

Show me a better line in minor league baseball for an organization's pitchers, ever, for a night in an organization where all four full-season teams played.  And until one out in the 9th of the final game of the night (Lynchburg) our minor league pitchers were collectively tossing a shutout.

BEIBER'S PITCH COUNT

I know I sound like a broken record here but the guy threw 121 pitches tonight.  Yes, he got that 8th strikeout to extend his record but how much damage is this doing to his arm?   Correct me if I am wrong but these guys are trained to throw 100-110 pitches a game, tops.  Anything after that has to put strain on his arm.   And in tonight's game, as there was a lot of traffic on the bases thanks to the Cubs hitters, a lot of those pitches were in high pressure situations.   So it was a tough 121.  

I object to using Beiber like this.  He has the chance to be a generational talent for the Indians and, listen Indians' management team, a stadium filler EVERY time he pitches.  He is money in your bank and he is being put at risk of pitching in a lot less stadium-filled games at home because he is being over-used.  This needs to be managed better.

OUR ORGANIZATION'S HITTERS

Subtract out low A Lynchburg's 16 hits in 42 AB and the rest of our minor league hitters were 19-92 tonight.  Our major league team was 5-28.  You won't win a lot of games where you go 5-28 unless all 5 of those hits are HR and you mix in some baserunners in those situations.

Time to get new hitting coaches in this system...or let's start teaching as well as our low A hitting coach is teaching.