Thread: Tim Shibuya

Today's Beloit Daily News article by Jim Franz provides some Shibuya news. He has been moved to the bullpen and made his first appearance last night in relief after Steven Gruver's poor start. Shibuya pitched 2.1 scoreless innings with no hits or walks and struck out two. His only 'blemish' was a hitting Javier Baez (who had homered in his previous at bat).

Tim Shibuya returned to the rotation today and had a nice outing. He held the Cedar Rapids Kernels scoreless for six innings, giving up just one hit, one walk, and two HBPs. According @JimCrikket, Terry Ryan made the trip down to Iowa.

Date	OPP	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	GO/AO	AVG
Jun 13	PEO	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	2.1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1.50	.000
Jun 16	BUR	0	0	4.50	1	0	0	0	0	2.0	3	2	1	0	0	1	2.00	.300
Jun 23	@CR	1	0	0.00	1	1	0	0	0	6.0	1	0	0	0	1	1	1.80	.000
Totals		3	4	5.16	15	13	1	1	0	68.0	75	55	39	5	15	54	2.10	.265

Here's Jim Crikket's piece on the game.

In Baseball America's list/discussion of the top pitching game scores of the year so far, Shibuya's complete game shut-out tied for first for low A leagues. The only other Twins minor leaguer among the top 20s was Liam Hendriks with the second best game at AAA.

Tim Shibuya was placed on the 7-day disabled list a couple days after his two-inning, two-runs-allowed outing. I haven't heard anything about the injury.

Phil Miller's piece on the Beloit Snappers features Tim prominently.

Has anyone heard any news about Tim Shibuya? After going on the DL midseason, I heard at one point he was rehabbing in Florida. Towards the end of the season, I saw he was back with Beloit doing his side-gig of acting as Miguel Sanó's translator for interviews. Seth left him off his top 50 prospect list.