Andre Rienzo

Position: RH SP

Born: 6/5/88

Ht: 6'3" Wt: 160

Acquired: Signed as free agent from Brazil in 2006

Rienzo's FutureSox profile

Rienzo @ Baseball-Reference

 

101 IP, 125 K, 32 BB, 3.65 ERA for Kannapolis in 2010. He will start in Winston-Salem in 2011.

Andre Rienzo

Born: 07/05/1988

Birthplace: Sao Paolo, Brazil

Height: 6'3

Weight: 160lbs.

Bat: R

Throw: R

 

Rienzo is currently in his 5th season with the White Sox organization. He spend two seasons in the Dominican Summer League, one in Bristol, one in Kannapolis and is currently playing in Winston-Salem

 

2007: DSL White Sox (#2) (1-1) 7G 3GS 15.1IP 7.63ERA 11BB 22K

 

2008: DSL White Sox (#1 & #2) (5-1) 8G 7GS 40.2IP 1.33ERA 9BB 44K

 

2009: Bristol (2-6) 13GP 9GP 54.1IP 4.14 ERA 13BB 49K

 

2010: Kannapolis (8-4) 20GP 18GS 101.0IP 3.65ERA 32BB 125K

 

2011: Winston Salem (1-1) 11GP 11GS 58.2IP 2.91ERA 32BB 64K

 

 

Rienzo is back in Winston-Salem this year. He had a nice 5 inning start to start the season.

Suspended 50 games for violating MiLB rules on PED's. Started an appeal, but decided to waive after 10 days and start his suspension. He should be back for the 2nd half.

 

Suspended 50 games for violating MiLB rules on PED's. Started an appeal, but decided to waive after 10 days and start his suspension. He should be back for the 2nd half.

 

He's tarnishing my rep with AAPs. Eduardo Escobar, Chris Carter and Fautino De Los Santos have made the Majors.

 

He's tarnishing my rep with AAPs. Eduardo Escobar, Chris Carter and Fautino De Los Santos have made the Majors.

 

Be happy then. My AAP record includes Donny Lucy, Ehren Wassermann, Sergio Miranda, Kevin Dubler, Garrett Johnson and Dan Remenowsky. I guess two of them made the majors, briefly.

 

Here's some videos of Rienzo during his debut outing in Birmingham. Not the greatest outing for him, gave up only 1 run, but was very wild.

 

Will add pictures in a later post once things have loaded.

 

 

 

 

Lots of Rienzo photos for y'all:

 

Long Toss:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was Andre's first game at AA. Wasn't the greatest game ever. Fastball topped out at 91, but was more consistently 88-90. Believe he featured a slider also.

 

Biggest problem for Andre was control. He was simply all over the place. Fell behind almost every hitter, most of his pitches were at the top of the zone or the bottom of the zone, and that gave guys a chance to sit back and wait on him throwing a fastball.

 

Was pulled after 3+ innings, presumably because of a pitch count since he hadn't thrown in a while.

Fangraphs looks at Rienzo

 

http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/samba-pit...g-andre-rienzo/

I wonder if he could get more velocity from a lower arm slot. I'm sure there's a great reason not to change that now.

Congratulations on his MLB debut. Quite impressive.

Up with the team. Hope he stays.

No longer rookie eligible, closing, will archive.