Sep 27 2014 08:50 AM
Who is Kevin Canelon? Kevin is one of those non-prospect/prospects that grind away at a probably-going-nowhere career in the minors. He got signed at 17 out of Caracas, Venezuela and has been pitching his heart out for four summers. But that hasn't gotten him too far. Three of those summer got him nowhere beyond the Dominican Summer League. So he's only gotten one go stateside, and because he was signed at 17 and not 16, he's already eligible for the Rule 5 draft. And he's almost a mathematical certainty not to be drafted, because who picks a guy who has one (short) season in US ball in the Gulf Coast League? No one, that's who. Maybe the minor league portion of the draft, but unlikely.
But here's the cool part. In that one short season, he appeared in 12 games, five of them starts, and pitched 37 1/3 innings. Not much of a workload, but not a meaningless sample either.
In that 37 1/3 innings, he struck out 30 batters... and walked one.
And it was intentional.
I found that pretty cool.
His SO/BB ratios by season
2011 (DSL): 1.25
2012 (DSL): 2.00
2013 (DSL): 3.125
2014 (GCL): 30.00
