The Oakland Athletics showcased their impressive pitching depth on Friday night by calling up Dan Straily from Triple-A to make his first major league start. Straily is the A's best prospect, and one of the top minor league performers of the season.
The most important fact pertaining to Straily is that he is the king of the strikeout. He has 180 of them; no one else, in the majors or the minors, has more. And they've come in only 144.1 innings! He's basically striking out batters at a rate equaled only by Stephen Strasburg among all starting pitchers in the land.
So naturally, Harold Reynolds of MLB Network had this to say about Straily during his debut:
"I don't think he has that much strikeout stuff."
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