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NEW YORK -- Emerson Hancock will make his much-anticipated 2022 debut for Double-A Arkansas on Tuesday, Mariners director of player development Andy McKay said on Friday at Citi Field, where the Mariners opened a three-game series.
Hancock is the club’s No. 4 prospect and baseball’s No. 80 prospect, per MLB Pipeline, and he’s been sidelined from game action the past nine months.
Last season, he was shut down with a right shoulder impingement in late June and then for the season in late August. Then just before Spring Training this year, he suffered a lat strain during a Minor League minicamp that has prevented him from pitching in a game yet in 2022.
Emerson Hancock is with the @ARTravs! He will make his season debut in the opener of the homestand on Tuesday at Dickey-Stephens Park.
Here is Hancock throwing a live BP session to teammates earlier this week in San Antonio. pic.twitter.com/nBS1qpFvWW
It’s been an unfortunate break for the former University of Georgia standout and his development, but encouraging that he’s returning to the mound. He was selected with the No. 6 overall pick in the 2020 MLB Draft, but did not pitch competitively that year due to the pandemic-impacted cancelation of the Minors season. He has impressed when healthy, with a 2.62 ERA last season in the Minors while holding opposing hitters to a .184/.268/.247 (.515 OPS) slash line.
But he’s made just 12 professional starts and tossed 44 2/3 innings, and a big jump from that mark this season is unlikely given how carefully the Mariners monitor innings accumulation.
For those reasons, he’s further behind the rest of Seattle’s top-end pitching prospects, such as Levi Stoudt, Matt Brash -- who broke camp with the big league team but has since been optioned to Triple-A Tacoma -- and George Kirby, who took Brash’s spot in the rotation and will make his second career start for Seattle on Saturday.