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2024 Barons Outlook

By Chance Barnhill
August 4, 2023

The Birmingham Barons will start the 2024 season with great optimism. They will return many familiar faces who played well in the last half of last season. Starting Pitchers Right-handed pitcher Jonathan Cannon, drafted in the third round in 2022, will get starts for the Barons this season. Cannon was

The Birmingham Barons will start the 2024 season with great optimism. They will return many familiar faces who played well in the last half of last season.

Starting Pitchers

Right-handed pitcher Jonathan Cannon, drafted in the third round in 2022, will get starts for the Barons this season. Cannon was 6-6 with a 4.46 ERA with two minor league teams last season. Last year, Cannon started in 11 games with a 1-4 record and a 5.77 ERA with the Barons. Cannon is #10 in the Chicago White Sox 2023 prospect rankings.

Left-handed pitcher Ky Bush made his way to the Barons during the middle of last season when he was traded by the Los Angeles Angels along with catcher Edgar Quero, who was playing for the Rocket City Trash Pandas to the Chicago White Sox and transferred to the Birmingham Barons along with Quero. The White Sox sent RHP Lucas Giolito and RHP Reynaldo Lopez to the Angels in that trade. Bush was 4-8 with a 6.91 ERA with three minor league teams last season. Bush was 3-4 with the Barons with a 6.70 ERA in nine starts last season. Bush was a second-round pick in the 2021 draft pick by the Angels. Bush is #9 in the Chicago White Sox 2023 prospect rankings.

Right-handed pitcher Josimar Cousin was signed as a free agent in 2023. Last season with three minor league teams, Cousin posted a 2-2 record with a 5.56 ERA. With the Barons in two starts, Cousin was 1-1 with a 4.00 ERA. Cousin is from Havana, Cuba.

Right-handed pitcher Mason Adams was drafted in the 13th round of the 2022 draft. Last season, Adams was 6-5 with a 3.28 ERA with three minor league teams and 0-2 with a 2.70 ERA in three starts with the Barons.

Right-handed pitcher Connor McCullough was signed as a free agent in 2022. He did not pitch for the Barons last season but was 8-8 with a 4.25 ERA with two minor league teams and 5-5 with a 5.33 ERA with Winston Salem last season.

Right-handed pitcher Andrew Dalquist was signed in the 2019 draft in the third round. He was 3-6 with a 7.69 ERA in 15 starts for Winston Salem last season.

Left-handed pitcher Brooks Gosswein was a 2021 fourth-round pick by the White Sox. Last season, he was 1-6 with a 5.32 ERA with two minor league teams and 0-2 with a 2.45 ERA with three starts with the Barons.

Left-handed pitcher Garrett Schoenle was picked in the 30th round by the Cincinnati Reds. Last season with the Barons, Schoenle started in 18 games and had 16 relief opportunities. Schoenle was 4-7 with a 6.22 ERA in 34 games for the Barons.