The Royals have promoted pitcher Walter Pennington from Triple-A Omaha and have activated Adam Frazier from the Injured Record. To make room on the roster, Carlos Hernández and C.J. Alexander had been optioned to Omaha. The Royals made room on the 40-man roster for Pennington by transferring pitcher Dan Altavilla to the 60-day Injured Record for his indirect damage.
Pennington hails from Broomfield, Colorado, about half-hour north of Denver, the place the Royals play tonight. He attended the Colorado College of Mines and signed with the Royals as an undrafted free agent. This 12 months, on the age of 26, he was having fun with his greatest professional season with a 2.35 ERA for Omaha with 76 strikeouts and 19 walks in 53 2⁄3 innings. His 12.75 strikeouts-per-nine-innings are third-most within the Worldwide League amongst pitchers with a minimum of 50 innings pitched.
Frazier had been out since injuring his thumb diving for a ball towards the Rangers on June 23. In 57 video games, he’s hitting .211/.297/.299. Hernández has appeared in 12 video games for the Royals with a 3.86 ERA however 8 walks in 11 2⁄3 innings, together with three in his outing final night time. CJ Alexander appeared in 4 video games and went 1-for-8 with three strikeouts, and struggled defensively at third base.
The Royals’ bullpen has the bottom strikeout charge in baseball and the 4.39 ERA is the seventh-highest in baseball.