Tough news out of Syracuse: FLP Kane Davis was released.  Kane was having an up-down kind of season, with a record of 6-7 and an ERA over four.  The final start came on June 24 against the Mudhens and it wasn’t pretty: two innings pitched, allowing nine hits and nine earned runs.

Hopefully Kane can find his stuff again, soon, and hook up with another team.  Which is a nice segue to FLP Zack Segovia.  As you may recall, the blog recently noted that Zack was picked up by the Washington Nationals and he appears to have regained some of the promise that the Phillies drafted him for.

Around this time a year ago, Zack Segovia was pitching in the Philadelphia Phillies organization, specifi-cally Tripe-A Ottawa. Just three months earlier Segovia was on the Phillies’ Opening Day roster and would make his major league debut not long after.
A second-round pick in 2002, Segovia now finds himself with the Potomac Nationals, trying to work his way back into the graces of the baseball gods after a precipitous spiral down through Philadelphia’s system.
However, in the Nationals’ organization Segovia seems to have reversed his movement, pitching first in the Gulf Coast League before heading to Low-A Hagerstown.
Now with his fourth team of the season, Segovia led the P-Nats to a 1-0 win in his Carolina League debut, the first of two seven-inning affairs against Salem Monday.
An hour, five-minute rain delay held up the start of the second game, a 5-1 Potomac loss in Jhonny Nunez’s 17th start of the year. Nunez fell to 2-8 on the year with the defeat.
But the story yesterday was Segovia seemingly finding the corner and turning it with Potomac.

Here’s hoping that the elbow and his control are all the way back, and back for good.

Potomac splits doubleheader