photo: Tink Hence (center) (Brian Walton/The Cardinal Nation)
Springfield Cardinals release
Minor League Baseball has announced that Springfield Cardinals starting pitcher Tink Hence has been named the Texas League Pitcher of the Month for April 2024. It’s the Cardinals’ consensus top prospect’s first award this season.
Hence made five starts in April for Springfield including an Opening Day nod where he threw five hitless innings. He went 3-0 with a 2.10 ERA as he allowed 13 hits and six walks over 25.2 innings. Henec led the league with 31 strikeouts and held opponents to a .148 average. His 0.74 WHIP was tops in the Texas League among pitchers with three or more starts. In the righthander’s final start of April, he went a career-long seven innings while striking out a career-high ten batters against the Tulsa Drillers on April 30.
This is Hence’s first Pitcher of the Month award from MiLB but is hardly his first award. The St. Louis number one prospect was named Co-Pitcher of the Month for June 2023 by the St. Louis Cardinals, then was selected to the National League Futures Game roster. Hence was a Florida State League Post-Season All-Star and Pitcher of the Year with the Palm Beach Cardinals in 2022. He was selected by St. Louis in Competitive Balance Round B (63rd overall) of the 2020 MLB Draft out of Watson Chapel High School in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
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