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Pirates Sign Pitcher Allen Montgomery as a Non-Drafted Free Agent

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The Pittsburgh Pirates signed 21-year-old right-handed pitcher Allen Montgomery as a non-drafted free agent on Sunday. He is 6’3″, 190 pounds and pitched at Southern Illinois for the last two seasons.

Montgomery pitched 27 games in relief this season, posting a 5.32 ERA in 43.1 innings, which is about a half of a run higher than the league average ERA. Batters hit .310 against him and he posted a 27:21 SO/BB ratio. While those stats aren’t impressive, they were a major improvement over his junior season (as a walk-on) when he had a 9.89 ERA in 23.2 innings.

I couldn’t find any scouting reports, but I’ll look into it and see what I can find. When the stats don’t impress for a pitcher like that, there is usually more behind it, meaning something like excellent velocity with poor command. He was a pitcher going back at least to high school, where he threw two no-hitters, so he has mound experience.

 

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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