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Joe Musgrove is Done for the Season; Nick Kingham Will Start Tomorrow

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The Pittsburgh Pirates announced that right-handed pitcher Joe Musgrove won’t make his last two starts due to right side abdominal discomfort. Nick Kingham will be starting in his place tomorrow. Musgrove finishes with a 4.06 ERA in 115.1 innings over 19 starts, with 100 strikeouts and a 1.18 WHIP.

Obviously it’s not a big deal that Musgrove is missing his final two starts of the season, especially since it sounds like a minor issue. It’s actually a good chance for Kingham to get some innings, including possibly two starts, because he is out of options going into next year and the more experience he has going into 2019, the better. Kingham has only pitched ten innings total since returning to the Pirates in late August, so he wasn’t looking at much work over the final five weeks of the season until this spot opened. You don’t want to see someone get hurt, but when you factor in the timing, the minor injury and what it allows, it’s definitely not the worst scenario playing out.

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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