Zac Lowther #74 to Baltimore

[GoMuskies]

5 shutout innings with 7 Ks for Zac tonight. Hopefully one more start this season.

[bobbiemcgee]

5 shutout innings with 7 Ks for Zac tonight. Hopefully one more start this season.

Projected start against Red Sox 9/29.

[GoMuskies]

I'm getting the feeling the curtain might be coming down on the Lowther show. He's got a 9.54 ERA in 14 innings in AAA this year after a nightmare of a 2021. He really needs to turn things around quickly.

[bobbiemcgee]

Hopefully he saved his 780k signing bonus and 570k salary.

[X-band '01]

Good news: Lowther has gradually improved down at Norfolk and got a 1-day callup to Baltimore back on Tuesday.

Bad news: It was mop-up duty in relief. 5 1/3 innings pitched while giving up 6 runs (5 earned) and 8 hits. Hopefully he's able to catch on somewhere else b/c he likely won't see an Os jersey again until September.

[GoMuskies]

Zac was finally activated after about 7 weeks off by Norfolk and threw 1.1 scoreless innings on Tuesday. 2 hits and 2 walks, so it wasn't exactly a triumphant return, but it's about as good as he's had this season. Perhaps a few more "successful" outtings with Norfolk to close out a lost 2022 will put him back on track to help the Orioles next year?

[X-band '01]

I'm wondering if he was injured - he was at the extended spring training facility for the Orioles for quite some time.

[bobbiemcgee]

He got dfa'd by the Orioles and dropped from the 40 man roster. No one claimed him so the Orioles got him back and sent him back to Norfolk.

[GoMuskies]

Zac finished the season with one last disastrous outing last Tuesday, giving up 6 runs in 2 innings, including 2 HRs among the 7 hits allowed. He finishes with a 10.31 ERA in 17 appearances covering 43.2 IP. He gave up 75 hits (10 of them HRs), walked 23 and struck out 46 (>9 per 9 innings for anyone looking for a positive!).

The Orioles put him on something called the Development List today, ending his season. I'm not sure what that means, but I don't think it's a good thing to be on. Here's hoping he was hiding some sort of injury this year and gets one more shot next year and turns it around.

[GoMuskies]

Is Zac's career over? He still shows as active and on the injured list at MILB.com, but I've heard nothing about him, and he's said nothing on Twitter. A couple of tweets about Xavier baseball, and a couple of tweets about baseball cards.