Cincinnati Reds seeing the implosion of Amir Garrett

Even after spending time in the minors, Amir Garrett’s return to the Cincinnati Reds has been nothing short of disastrous.

The Cincinnati Reds hoped that Amir Garrett understood why they sent him to Triple-A.  They thought he had corrected the issues.  Instead it is more of the same from the lefty prospect.

In his most recent start Garrett lasted four innings, allowing four runs.  Per usual, he walked five and allowed a home run.  He also surrendered three hits.

That means that Garrett had a WHIP of 2.00.  That goes along nicely with an ERA of 9.00.  At least he had seven strikeouts.

The start prior to that, Garrett pitched five innings allowing four runs.  He only walked two, but he gave up three home runs.  He also allowed two other hits.

That comes out to a WHIP of 1.40, which is high without being awful.  His ERA ended up at 7.20 for that game.  He still had a strikeout per inning at five.

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Garrett’s last MLB start prior to those two was at Tampa Bay.  He went 3 2/3 innings allowing six runs.  He walked four and gave up a pair of home runs.

In that game he surrendered a total of five hits for a WHIP of 2.45.  His ERA was 14.71.  Those are pretty bad numbers.

The Cincinnati Reds had Amir Garrett in the minors for two whole months working on control and keeping the ball in the park.

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The results for Garrett while he was down in Louisville weren’t much better than what we have seen of late from him in the big leagues.  He made 14 starts going a total of 67 2/3 innings.  That is an average of 4 2/3 innings per start.

Garrett only allowed 24 walks during that time, which is good on a per start basis.  Most impressively, Garrett only allowed seven home runs showing that he could keep the ball in the park.  Yet, he could only maintain an ERA of 5.72.

Something wasn’t right with Garrett.  His batting average against was an astronomical .295.  He has some issues with allowing hits too easily, but this was high even for Garrett.

This resulted in a WHIP of 1.52, which is the type of WHIP Garrett used to have when he was in A-ball.  It is as if he regressed in order to avoid giving up home runs.  It may be just that as he struck 61 innings while in the minors.

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Whatever he was doing early in the season, Garrett needs to re-find it.  He went from team ace to team bum.  He will have trouble making the team next season, let alone the starting rotation the way that he has pitched since June.