September 5, 200817 yr Cassel Earns League ERA Title 09/03/2008 3:19 PM ET MLB.com MARIETTA, Ga. - The Southern League announced Wednesday that Birmingham Barons right-hander Justin Cassel has earned the Southern League's ERA Award after posting a circuit-best 3.11 mark this season. The 24-year-old went 10-4 in 28 starts this year to anchor the Birmingham pitching staff, which collected a league-best 3.70 ERA as a group. Cassel finished the regular season tied for third in the league in victories and tossed the third-most innings (165) of any pitcher. He has been named the starter for Birmingham's first playoff game against Mississippi this Thursday. A native of Los Angeles, Cassel emerged as the anchor of the Birmingham pitching staff this season. He has tossed a team-high 18 quality starts (six or more innings, three or less earned runs allowed) and was one of six Barons selected to play in the Southern League's midseason All-Star game, in which he tossed a scoreless inning. Over a span of nine starts from early June until mid-July, he went 4-0 with a 2.09 ERA. Cassel, a seventh-round pick by the White Sox in 2006, also tallied an impressive 24.1-inning stretch from April 11 to May 7 where he allowed just two unearned runs. In the middle of that span, he threw seven shutout innings in a win over Mobile on May 2 and racked up a career-high nine strikeouts in the process. He was named the Southern League Pitcher of the Week for his efforts in the victory.
September 8, 200817 yr QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Sep 8, 2008 -> 03:00 PM) 3.11 is pretty high for league best. Must have been a hitters league. Keep in mind that you have to qualify by IP or games for those kind of titles. And in the minors, if a guy is pitching phenomenally (like, ERA in the 1's or 2's for a starter), then they have a high likelihood he would be promoted, and thus not make the minimum for qualification.
September 8, 200817 yr QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 8, 2008 -> 02:37 PM) Is this dude also part of the great cassel family going now? Yep.
September 9, 200817 yr Is he this years Jack Egbert, or does the kid have a chance of making it to Chicago without a ticket?
September 15, 200817 yr Wonder how many of these minor league stars of ours get traded in the next couple years?
September 15, 200817 yr QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Sep 15, 2008 -> 08:37 AM) Wonder how many of these minor league stars of ours get traded in the next couple years? Everyone but Beckham and Danks.
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