Spring training starting pitchers- What I noticed, so take it with a grain of salt.
1) Carmen Mlodzinski has been working out with starting pitchers this spring and starting the opener tomorrow. His stuff has been looking nasty, so I probably jinxed him for sure.
2) Thomas Harrington made hitters look fooled, but also gave up solid contact. I'm not sure how many of those would have been hits and how many would be outs.
3) Paul Skenes looked like he could no hit the Pirates hitters every game.
4) Johna Oviedo looked healthy and strong.
5) Jared Jones also looked healthy and strong.
6) Bubba Chandler lived up to the hype.
7) Mitch Keller looked solid as usual.
8) Bailey Falter looked better than last spring.
9) Hunter Barco-I didn't see pitch, but saw him up close. He's every bit 6'4 225 pounds of muscle.
10) Braxton Ashcraft-Didn't pitch bad.
11) Mike Burrows- I didn't get to his field to see him pitch.
12) Anthony Solometo- better than he did in the minors last year.
13) Andrew Heaney- missed spring training practice with the Pirates.
Francona's going to the road game tomorrow, rather than split-squad home game vs. Guardians. He did not want to have a hug fest with his old team. Kudos Terry! This is what winner's do. This is not what Shelton would do.
He’s pedestrian in the sense that he’s a 3rd or 4th SP. But he’s a very solid innings eater that will keep you in most every game. And has had some post season success too.
"Rodriguez looks bigger and stronger now, and the receiving aspect of his catching defense was fine when he returned, though he had only a few opportunities to throw (he popped 1.97, and 1.90 on a throw cut in front of the bag) and wasn’t really forced to block any pitches in the dirt in his few games back there."
I don’t like sending Endy down as I think he will be an impact major leaguer and will do that this year. I would start him twice a week at C and 3 times at 1B until Horwitz is back. Then we can see what Endy has and if Bart can replicate 2024.
FWIW, to gain a year of control Endy would have to be in AAA almost 3 months. Hank would have to be there almost 2 months.
Longenhagen makes a good point; that's a long time off without any game action for a kid who didn't exactly light it up in his first run through big league pitching.
Couple that with a role as backup catcher and i don't know, man. Seems like reps in AAA may be warranted.
Absolutely, I would start Endy in AAA. It gives Hank one more opportunity before he makes his annual walk of shame back to the minors, and it ensures that Endy is ready before subjecting him to major-league pitching.
Yea, that's always made the most sense to me. Start Hank in the majors with Bart, let Endy get a month or two in AAA, and if/once Davis shows he still can't hit major league pitching, switch them. If neither are looking good, then, well I'm not sure what you do.
I was hoping they’d include Davis in the article, but they did touch on other players and noted some that have struggled with catching up to major league fastballs.
I guess I just don't see Bailey bringing back a lot in return if we want a current year legitimate outfield starter. I could see that with Jones (to the Orioles maybe) or possibly Mitch going somewhere. To me Bailey would get a lower level decent prospect. It's not that I don't like him but soft tossing pitchers are just not a hot commodity especially those who there could be reservations on whether he can repeat last year which for all the positives was a 5 inning pitcher.
I don't think they'll trade Keller or Jones, but signing Heaney does free them up to do so if there is a comparable player available who plays a corner OF spot. Jones for his equivalent in LF would make a lot of sense, as much as I'd miss watching Jones.
As one of only 2 Board members of the Bailey Falter Fan Club last March, I kinda cringed with this Heaney signing. But competition is good, and may the best guy win the starting rotation.
Or maybe both do. Although they appear to be near identical pitchers.
Based on the article today in the Trib, it sounds like both Heaney and Falter are penciled into the rotation for now and they plan to ease Oviedo back, at least early on.
I'm still red-assed over lack of attention to the pen, but if loading the rotation as means of pushing good arms into the pen is the strategy here then I'll gladly eat crow.
Outside of signing Ferguson and bringing back Wilkin Ramos, I hate the whole offseason... as usual. This guy, GMBC, hit the baseball equivalent of the Lotto once... signing a bunch of mediocre to bad free agents and having every one of them put a career year simultaneously to win a World Series. He is like a guy who hits the Lotto for $150 million (or whatever), and then plays the same numbers again for thousands of doll every day for the rest of his life, until he loses more than he won. There is a reason that you cannot win playing Daily Numbers, and there is a reason that Cherington has finished in last place 7 of his 9 years as GM.
Ok. It is as simple as this. You cannot win as the Pittsburgh Pirates, or any small market team, by signing piles of free agents. The Dodgers can win that way. The Yankees can win that way or the Mets. The Pirates cannot.
This stupid idiot cannot figure out, for whatever reason, that he is the GM of a small-market team, and small market teams do not sign 6 free agents to major-league deals every off-season to build their rosters. Why? Because the guys who sign for $3 million per season are no better than what you could get off the waiver wire. I will grant a few rare exceptions (like Heaney, for example). But signing Heaney just means that Chandler starts in AAA. You have to have young players who are capable step up and fill out the roster to win as a small-market team. It is not complicated.
Yeah, I would have liked to see them go out and get someone capable of closing on days Bednar is off, ala Chapman, but I think they have numbers in the pen to work from and hopefully Mlod takes the next step.
IF they are in contention and IF the rotation remains relatively healthy, there’s an opportunity to add Burrows, Ashcraft and even Moreta and Stratton as live arms later in the year.
I am all for unconventional and innivative. I am for 2 multiple inning guys a day... and only use your one-inning guys if needed. Imagine Skenes coming in a tie-game or one run game in the 4th. He might win 25 games with no bullpen to blow it.
A unicorn like Paul might actually be able to pull it off.
I believe the whole "stress" concept of pitch limits makes a lot of sense and for that reason you probably don't want your starter going tits out on a bullpen day, but Paul at 75% might still be the best reliever on the club.
It's surprising that we'd get a WS star a year-and-a-half later for ~$5MM after he just pitched his career-high in innings (i.e., he's healthy). Sometimes it pays to wait.
Pitching wise, they judged the market great. This is a far better signing than Perez last year for a smaller amount. Now, if we could add another bat….
Campagna released. He could do it all but hit. Another pirate development failure. They tend to sign athletes with the hope they can teach them how to hit. Doesn't seem to be working out.
Agree. Like others were quick to note, it’s reasonable to hope Heaney’s era will drop with half his starts coming at PNC. If he can make his starts even at last year’s numbers, it’s a good deal.
It also helps the club in that it (1) allows Oviedo to continue to build up over 2025 and be in position to handle a full year’s workload (for the Pirates or another team) next year, and (2) lets the young guys start the year in AAA.
There are multiple benefits to the second point. One, the team can be more judicious in their workload in the early part of the year so Chandler, Harrington, etc. are available for a late season push. It also provides these pitchers a platform to hopefully go out and shove and enhance their value.
I don’t think there will be any more additions to the lineup short of a waiver claim (or trade for someone about to go on waivers), but I think with the Heaney addition the payroll matches last year’s total. If so, I’d imagine they will have some ability to add payroll at the deadline when they are in the hunt.
Unfortunately, unless everything breaks very well for them, I don't think that they will be in any hunt near the trade deadline, except the hunt for good draft position... as per the Cherington usual.
Kiley has his draft list up. Has only two 50’s (Laviolette and Arnold), and nine in the 45+ tier (Bremner, Arquette, Cantaloupes, Carlson, Marek Houston, Holliday, and Gavin Fien) in that order. His 45 tier has over 20 names, including personal cheeseballs of this board like Willits and Schoolcraft.
He notes that the buzz at the top of the draft isn’t great, which was a similar feeling last year. But he says the depth in all phases of this class is solid.
I think 2023 was a bit of an anomaly (3 college and 2 prep guys) who could have gone 1/1 in any normal year. While that year may have been related to the pandemic draft being shortened and forcing more players to campus, it feels like teams on the whole are leaning more college heavy in the draft.
'24 draft should be in that pandemic factor as well. A lot of prep players didn't have their junior year showcase to help separate them against higher competition.
Still don't like BC and Shelton but some credit - I liked the Yorke-Priester trade and I like the Heaney signing in a vacuum. However, when that vacuum includes no serious offensive upgrade then I think that money could have been spent better elsewhere.
I liked acquiring Horwitz too, though I think it should have been for Ortiz and one top-20 prospect.
Of course at the time I liked the Taillon trade even more than the Musgrove trade, and that turned out to be wrong. And I liked the Holmes trade...hopefully, they did a better job evaluating Yorke and Horwitz than they did with Castillo and Park.
-Dbacks lock up Perdomo at SS...one of two good SS prospects at the time of the Marte trade, the other being Liover Peguero. average but, above average D...2 WAR starter. Wyatt Sanford anyone?
-Interesting article up on the Orioles, who added $60m to their payroll this winter and are projected to be 3-4 games better than the Pirates. This shit gets expensive, fast.
The new Orioles owner just publically announced they are focusing on the team's profitability right now.....unlikely to be anymore adds. It got a lot of ridicule in Baltimore, as it should. Rubenstein needs to understand he's not running The Carlyle Group. I mean Bob is even smart enough to not make public statements like that!
More so if you're going to compete in the AL East.
In any case, what will the Pirates do once Skenes and Jones enter their arb years in two years and payroll will increase by ~$20MM or more just with their two salary bumps (I hope I'm not jinxing Jones; I think Skenes is jinx-proof)?
Also why they were never giving 3-5 yr FA contracts this winter, even if budget were there from cobbling together all their low-dollar single-year signs.
The worst thing about the Tellez signing last year was that Ben felt the need to jump on him early in the offseason with it nearly set in stone that he'd be our starting 1B. As you said, had we signed him to an MiL deal with a NRI and had him earn his way to a starting position, it would have been fine.
He was coming off of a -0.7 fWAR season and yet didn't need to do anything to earn that starting job--no wonder it looked like he didn't take his job seriously.
I'm a little surprised that we got Heaney as cheaply as we did, and Quintana probably (rightly) thinks he's worth more than what the Pirates offered. Good for the Pirates, though, not waiting on Quintana when Heaney seems like just as good an option, and maybe better given his higher K rate and how his weaknesses should be mitigated by PNC.
Man, do I love this signing. This is an incredibly deep rotation, and the 2 lefties will allow them to break up the 3 RH horses. Maybe something like Skenes, Heaney, Keller, Jones, Falter. Heaney going to love pitching in PNC. Starting to think the Buccos have a puncher's chance here.
Didn't realize Heaney was the 9th overall pick in the 2012 draft
If you check his Statcast data from last year, pretty much everything is average or better. Velocity is low and whiffs are avg., but most everything else is good. Chasing, EV, barrels are all solidly above avg. Reads like a good 4th starter.
Spring training starting pitchers- What I noticed, so take it with a grain of salt.
1) Carmen Mlodzinski has been working out with starting pitchers this spring and starting the opener tomorrow. His stuff has been looking nasty, so I probably jinxed him for sure.
2) Thomas Harrington made hitters look fooled, but also gave up solid contact. I'm not sure how many of those would have been hits and how many would be outs.
3) Paul Skenes looked like he could no hit the Pirates hitters every game.
4) Johna Oviedo looked healthy and strong.
5) Jared Jones also looked healthy and strong.
6) Bubba Chandler lived up to the hype.
7) Mitch Keller looked solid as usual.
8) Bailey Falter looked better than last spring.
9) Hunter Barco-I didn't see pitch, but saw him up close. He's every bit 6'4 225 pounds of muscle.
10) Braxton Ashcraft-Didn't pitch bad.
11) Mike Burrows- I didn't get to his field to see him pitch.
12) Anthony Solometo- better than he did in the minors last year.
13) Andrew Heaney- missed spring training practice with the Pirates.
Francona's going to the road game tomorrow, rather than split-squad home game vs. Guardians. He did not want to have a hug fest with his old team. Kudos Terry! This is what winner's do. This is not what Shelton would do.
why does everyone thing Heaney is any good?
in my opinion he is like our 9th or 10th best starting pitcher
His whip and era was better or about the same as our 16 million dollar Mitch Keller was . Just saying
Because he had 2.2 fWAR last year. The exact same amount as Keller.
Era looks pretty pedestrian
He’s pedestrian in the sense that he’s a 3rd or 4th SP. But he’s a very solid innings eater that will keep you in most every game. And has had some post season success too.
I know, missing out on your guy Cantina hurts......the life of a Pirates fan.
Cantina wins in the playoffs
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ARI/ARI202310310.shtml
"Rodriguez looks bigger and stronger now, and the receiving aspect of his catching defense was fine when he returned, though he had only a few opportunities to throw (he popped 1.97, and 1.90 on a throw cut in front of the bag) and wasn’t really forced to block any pitches in the dirt in his few games back there."
Cool article about post-prospects
I don’t like sending Endy down as I think he will be an impact major leaguer and will do that this year. I would start him twice a week at C and 3 times at 1B until Horwitz is back. Then we can see what Endy has and if Bart can replicate 2024.
FWIW, to gain a year of control Endy would have to be in AAA almost 3 months. Hank would have to be there almost 2 months.
This might've sold me on starting Endy in AAA.
Longenhagen makes a good point; that's a long time off without any game action for a kid who didn't exactly light it up in his first run through big league pitching.
Couple that with a role as backup catcher and i don't know, man. Seems like reps in AAA may be warranted.
Absolutely, I would start Endy in AAA. It gives Hank one more opportunity before he makes his annual walk of shame back to the minors, and it ensures that Endy is ready before subjecting him to major-league pitching.
Yea, that's always made the most sense to me. Start Hank in the majors with Bart, let Endy get a month or two in AAA, and if/once Davis shows he still can't hit major league pitching, switch them. If neither are looking good, then, well I'm not sure what you do.
Where?
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/prospect-limbo-the-best-of-the-2025-post-prospects/
Fangraphs.
I was hoping they’d include Davis in the article, but they did touch on other players and noted some that have struggled with catching up to major league fastballs.
A lot can happen in 30 days. Some teams are going to have SP's go down and be desperate to break camp with one of the Pirates starters.
Falter is nearing FA.....it might be Bailey that we part ways with in late March, for a bat or prospect.
I guess I just don't see Bailey bringing back a lot in return if we want a current year legitimate outfield starter. I could see that with Jones (to the Orioles maybe) or possibly Mitch going somewhere. To me Bailey would get a lower level decent prospect. It's not that I don't like him but soft tossing pitchers are just not a hot commodity especially those who there could be reservations on whether he can repeat last year which for all the positives was a 5 inning pitcher.
I don't think they'll trade Keller or Jones, but signing Heaney does free them up to do so if there is a comparable player available who plays a corner OF spot. Jones for his equivalent in LF would make a lot of sense, as much as I'd miss watching Jones.
I think this could be a savvy move
As one of only 2 Board members of the Bailey Falter Fan Club last March, I kinda cringed with this Heaney signing. But competition is good, and may the best guy win the starting rotation.
Or maybe both do. Although they appear to be near identical pitchers.
Based on the article today in the Trib, it sounds like both Heaney and Falter are penciled into the rotation for now and they plan to ease Oviedo back, at least early on.
I'm still red-assed over lack of attention to the pen, but if loading the rotation as means of pushing good arms into the pen is the strategy here then I'll gladly eat crow.
The pen and shortstop for me.
Outside of signing Ferguson and bringing back Wilkin Ramos, I hate the whole offseason... as usual. This guy, GMBC, hit the baseball equivalent of the Lotto once... signing a bunch of mediocre to bad free agents and having every one of them put a career year simultaneously to win a World Series. He is like a guy who hits the Lotto for $150 million (or whatever), and then plays the same numbers again for thousands of doll every day for the rest of his life, until he loses more than he won. There is a reason that you cannot win playing Daily Numbers, and there is a reason that Cherington has finished in last place 7 of his 9 years as GM.
I think he's worse than Littlefield. I agree he lucked out 1 year, been in last or next to last every other year.
Ok. It is as simple as this. You cannot win as the Pittsburgh Pirates, or any small market team, by signing piles of free agents. The Dodgers can win that way. The Yankees can win that way or the Mets. The Pirates cannot.
This stupid idiot cannot figure out, for whatever reason, that he is the GM of a small-market team, and small market teams do not sign 6 free agents to major-league deals every off-season to build their rosters. Why? Because the guys who sign for $3 million per season are no better than what you could get off the waiver wire. I will grant a few rare exceptions (like Heaney, for example). But signing Heaney just means that Chandler starts in AAA. You have to have young players who are capable step up and fill out the roster to win as a small-market team. It is not complicated.
Yeah, I would have liked to see them go out and get someone capable of closing on days Bednar is off, ala Chapman, but I think they have numbers in the pen to work from and hopefully Mlod takes the next step.
IF they are in contention and IF the rotation remains relatively healthy, there’s an opportunity to add Burrows, Ashcraft and even Moreta and Stratton as live arms later in the year.
Though, the Beeks for Peralta trade still hurts.
Hear me out...
6-man rotation with Paul and Jared closing on their bullpen days.
;)
I am all for unconventional and innivative. I am for 2 multiple inning guys a day... and only use your one-inning guys if needed. Imagine Skenes coming in a tie-game or one run game in the 4th. He might win 25 games with no bullpen to blow it.
A unicorn like Paul might actually be able to pull it off.
I believe the whole "stress" concept of pitch limits makes a lot of sense and for that reason you probably don't want your starter going tits out on a bullpen day, but Paul at 75% might still be the best reliever on the club.
I am waiting for an innovative team to try this, especially if there's other reasons to go with a 6-man rotation.
27 man roster will allow this, coming with next CBA.
Unconventional but no reason it could not work.
We got them for six years, let’s use them!!!! Kidding, I care. Seriously, I do. Ok a little.
Strategy? You said strategy in reference to this FO? Is there one beyond finding bargains? ;)
Their strategy is not to have strategy. It’s called splategy.
Strategery) when a dangerous or ridiculous plan is somehow better than no plan or limited effort in forming a rational plan.
Stragedy
hahaha yes
I can commiserate the difficulty of being a part of a small but mighty fan club
My Gaby Sanchez Fan Club just re-elected me as president; 1 vote out of 1.
Recount, we need a recount. Not buying those results.
STOP THE COUNT
Jokes on you, my alternate electors are also in the bag.
It's surprising that we'd get a WS star a year-and-a-half later for ~$5MM after he just pitched his career-high in innings (i.e., he's healthy). Sometimes it pays to wait.
Pitching wise, they judged the market great. This is a far better signing than Perez last year for a smaller amount. Now, if we could add another bat….
Especially if you compare it to some of the other contracts signed early on like Montas, Boyd, etc.
Campagna released. He could do it all but hit. Another pirate development failure. They tend to sign athletes with the hope they can teach them how to hit. Doesn't seem to be working out.
The pirates need hitters but keep adding pitchers. Does this mean Chandler etal are garbage? Will this madness ever stop?
I think the implication here is the relative cost of pitching vs hitting.
Agree. Like others were quick to note, it’s reasonable to hope Heaney’s era will drop with half his starts coming at PNC. If he can make his starts even at last year’s numbers, it’s a good deal.
It also helps the club in that it (1) allows Oviedo to continue to build up over 2025 and be in position to handle a full year’s workload (for the Pirates or another team) next year, and (2) lets the young guys start the year in AAA.
There are multiple benefits to the second point. One, the team can be more judicious in their workload in the early part of the year so Chandler, Harrington, etc. are available for a late season push. It also provides these pitchers a platform to hopefully go out and shove and enhance their value.
I don’t think there will be any more additions to the lineup short of a waiver claim (or trade for someone about to go on waivers), but I think with the Heaney addition the payroll matches last year’s total. If so, I’d imagine they will have some ability to add payroll at the deadline when they are in the hunt.
Unfortunately, unless everything breaks very well for them, I don't think that they will be in any hunt near the trade deadline, except the hunt for good draft position... as per the Cherington usual.
4.04 FIP and 2.2 fWAR is fantastic for a 4th starter. They now have a playoff rotation.
Playoff rotation and a bottom 5 offense = 76 wins
And maybe the worst OF defense in all of baseball.
At a bargain $.
I just wish Cherington would hire his own *offensive coordinator* to assemble a lineup…
(Though ST time has me dreaming of some breakouts on offense! And MAYBE Hall will be this club’s G.I. Jones…)
No, and probably not.
Kiley has his draft list up. Has only two 50’s (Laviolette and Arnold), and nine in the 45+ tier (Bremner, Arquette, Cantaloupes, Carlson, Marek Houston, Holliday, and Gavin Fien) in that order. His 45 tier has over 20 names, including personal cheeseballs of this board like Willits and Schoolcraft.
He notes that the buzz at the top of the draft isn’t great, which was a similar feeling last year. But he says the depth in all phases of this class is solid.
When you’re 1-6, unless it’s a generational draft, depth > top talent.
I think 2023 was a bit of an anomaly (3 college and 2 prep guys) who could have gone 1/1 in any normal year. While that year may have been related to the pandemic draft being shortened and forcing more players to campus, it feels like teams on the whole are leaning more college heavy in the draft.
'24 draft should be in that pandemic factor as well. A lot of prep players didn't have their junior year showcase to help separate them against higher competition.
Hopefully this will turnout to be a solid signing. Certainly most of the posts on the MLTR site think so. Could lead to a young starter deal?
Still don't like BC and Shelton but some credit - I liked the Yorke-Priester trade and I like the Heaney signing in a vacuum. However, when that vacuum includes no serious offensive upgrade then I think that money could have been spent better elsewhere.
I liked acquiring Horwitz too, though I think it should have been for Ortiz and one top-20 prospect.
Of course at the time I liked the Taillon trade even more than the Musgrove trade, and that turned out to be wrong. And I liked the Holmes trade...hopefully, they did a better job evaluating Yorke and Horwitz than they did with Castillo and Park.
I liked the Yorke deal, but what’s the point if you’re going to block him with fossils?
I'm hoping he gets the firstbase opening to start the season and just hit his way into the lineup be it at 1st, 2nd or left field.
Some things that interest me...
-Dbacks lock up Perdomo at SS...one of two good SS prospects at the time of the Marte trade, the other being Liover Peguero. average but, above average D...2 WAR starter. Wyatt Sanford anyone?
-Interesting article up on the Orioles, who added $60m to their payroll this winter and are projected to be 3-4 games better than the Pirates. This shit gets expensive, fast.
The new Orioles owner just publically announced they are focusing on the team's profitability right now.....unlikely to be anymore adds. It got a lot of ridicule in Baltimore, as it should. Rubenstein needs to understand he's not running The Carlyle Group. I mean Bob is even smart enough to not make public statements like that!
And....Rubenstein wants a salary cap. That comment I like.
While at the same time exposing the obvious reason for wanting one.
I suppose the grand bargain is higher profits for owners in exchange for more evenly spread mediocrity across teams.
More so if you're going to compete in the AL East.
In any case, what will the Pirates do once Skenes and Jones enter their arb years in two years and payroll will increase by ~$20MM or more just with their two salary bumps (I hope I'm not jinxing Jones; I think Skenes is jinx-proof)?
Probably try to unload Reynolds and Keller.
Bingo.
Also why they were never giving 3-5 yr FA contracts this winter, even if budget were there from cobbling together all their low-dollar single-year signs.
Where is the O’s article?
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-orioles-are-baseballs-most-fascinating-team-building-puzzle/
Grazi
Yorke taking grounders at first, practicing throws to second.
Two-way Rowdy had to take a MiL deal, a year later than he should have.
The worst thing about the Tellez signing last year was that Ben felt the need to jump on him early in the offseason with it nearly set in stone that he'd be our starting 1B. As you said, had we signed him to an MiL deal with a NRI and had him earn his way to a starting position, it would have been fine.
He was coming off of a -0.7 fWAR season and yet didn't need to do anything to earn that starting job--no wonder it looked like he didn't take his job seriously.
Emmanuel Valdez, Cook and Frazier yesterday per DKS. Soon it will be who is not that will be news!
apparently Cantina turned us down
I'm a little surprised that we got Heaney as cheaply as we did, and Quintana probably (rightly) thinks he's worth more than what the Pirates offered. Good for the Pirates, though, not waiting on Quintana when Heaney seems like just as good an option, and maybe better given his higher K rate and how his weaknesses should be mitigated by PNC.
I think Heaney might have liked the park factor. A good statistical year in '25 could get him a 2 year $20+ million deal.
Not to lead the team to the world series?
That's the public goal or narrative, the private or personal goal is extending and maximizing his career lol.
Man, do I love this signing. This is an incredibly deep rotation, and the 2 lefties will allow them to break up the 3 RH horses. Maybe something like Skenes, Heaney, Keller, Jones, Falter. Heaney going to love pitching in PNC. Starting to think the Buccos have a puncher's chance here.
Didn't realize Heaney was the 9th overall pick in the 2012 draft
If you check his Statcast data from last year, pretty much everything is average or better. Velocity is low and whiffs are avg., but most everything else is good. Chasing, EV, barrels are all solidly above avg. Reads like a good 4th starter.
https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/andrew-heaney-571760?stats=statcast-r-pitching-mlb