The Fall League files: Nimmala's bat, Reilly's arm and a six-pitch project in Arizona
Nimmala and Reilly took Week 2 honors in the Arizona Fall League, a Cubs arm is building a six-pitch mix, and a Cardinals prospect is raking after losing 25 pounds to illness.
- Angels prospect Nimmala was named the Arizona Fall League Hitter of the Week for Week 2 after recording a 1.758 OPS and a 1.091 slugging percentage across three games. m:…2535
- Orioles pitcher Reilly was named the Arizona Fall League Pitcher of the Week for Week 2. He struck out seven over four scoreless innings with a 43.5 percent swinging-strike rate, and sports a 2-0 record with a 1.29 ERA and 0.86 WHIP over seven innings in the desert. The Orioles report credits him with the league lead at 13 strikeouts over two starts. m:…2535 m:…6154
- Cubs prospect Reid is working with a six-pitch arsenal, four-seamer, sinker, cutter, curveball, changeup and sweeper, and has allowed two runs across 12 innings. The Cubs report credits him with a league-leading 14 strikeouts after he missed nearly three months of the 2026 season with a shoulder impingement. m:…0512
- Cardinals prospect Peete holds a .361/.452/.639 slash line in the Fall League through nine games after losing up to 25 pounds to an illness during the summer of 2026. He recorded an 11.45-second home-to-third time, the second-fastest in the Fall League, and was acquired by St. Louis from the Mariners in February 2026. m:…0074
Nimmala's week
The Arizona Fall League named its Week 2 honorees: the Angels’ Nimmala and the Orioles’ Reilly, honored as Hitter and Pitcher of the Week respectively. Both are playing for new trajectories after difficult stretches. m:…2535
Nimmala recorded a 1.758 OPS during Week 2 with a circuit-best 1.091 slugging percentage. He piled up 12 total bases with four extra-base hits, walked four times and struck out just once across three games. The week brought his season home-run total to 19 over 94 games in 2026. m:…2535
Nimmala is doing it in a new organization. He was traded to the Angels at the 2026 trade deadline. m:…2535
Reilly's comeback season
Reilly's Week 2 outing was dominant: seven strikeouts over four scoreless innings with a 43.5 percent swinging-strike rate. The Orioles report credits him with the league lead at 13 strikeouts over two starts, and he has a 1.29 ERA and 0.86 WHIP over seven innings in the desert. m:…6154
The Fall League numbers extend a strong finish to the regular season. Reilly sports a 2-0 record with a 1.29 ERA, an 0.86 WHIP and a .160 average-against over seven frames in the desert, and posted a 2.08 ERA over 30 1/3 innings in his final six starts of the 2026 regular season. Across the desert stint and the regular-season finish, Reilly has paired a 2-0 Fall League record with a 2.08 ERA over his final six regular-season starts. m:…2535
Six pitches in Chicago's project
Cubs right-hander Reid is attempting to develop a six-pitch arsenal: four-seamer, sinker, cutter, curveball, changeup and sweeper. His changeup remains the headliner, a 60-grade pitch. Fall League hitters are batting just .171 against him. The six-pitch mix pairs a 60-grade changeup with the four-seamer, sinker, cutter, curveball and sweeper; Fall League hitters are batting .171 against it. m:…0512
Reid has allowed just two runs across 12 innings, and the Cubs report credits him with a league-leading 14 strikeouts. The Fall League run follows a lost summer: Reid missed nearly three months of the 2026 season with a shoulder impingement after being selected by the Cubs in the third round of the 2025 Draft. His 12-start stint with Single-A Myrtle Beach produced a 4.17 ERA with 50 strikeouts in 49 2/3 innings. m:…0512
Peete plays again
Cardinals prospect Peete holds a .361/.452/.639 slash line in the Fall League through nine games, and the loudest night came on Oct. 19: a 109.4 mph leadoff double and a 112 mph triple in the third inning, the latter producing the Fall League's second-fastest home-to-third time at 11.45 seconds. Peete became the first Fall Leaguer this year to record at least four hits and two stolen bases in a single game. m:…0074
The performance follows a lost summer. Peete lost up to 25 pounds to an illness during the summer of 2026 and managed only 66 games across three levels. After returning on July 7, he hit .336/.381/.604 over his final 34 games. He was acquired by St. Louis from the Mariners in February 2026. The Mariners-to-Cardinals move came in February 2026. A hand adjustment, moving his hands from high behind his head to more flexed out and closer to the plate, has lifted his batted-ball percentage toward center field from 22.2 percent in 2025 to 31.2 percent in 2026. m:…0074
What is still unresolved
- Whether the league-lead strikeout discrepancy between the Orioles' count for Reilly (13) and the Cubs' count for Reid (14) reflects different reporting windows or a genuine lead change.
- Whether Reilly's post-Tommy John dominance holds as his workload climbs beyond seven desert innings.
- Whether Reid's six-pitch mix survives contact against upper-level hitters after a shoulder-impingement summer.
- Whether Peete's swing changes and regained weight carry through a full healthy season in 2027.
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