Keeping Track

Minor League Players of the Year

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We're choosing the best batter and best pitcher from each team.  Remember, we're looking at this team-by-team, so someone who had a great year but was never with one team for a long time might not get an award.

ROCHESTER

Batter:  Reynaldo Rodriguez hit .255/.307/.446 in 502 at-bats.

Pitcher:  Pat Dean was 12-11, 2.82, 1.15 WHIP with 36 walks and 98 strikeouts in 179 innings (27 starts).

CHATTANOOGA

Batter:  Max Kepler hit .322/.416/.531 in 407 at-bats.  He was also 18-for-22 in stolen bases.

Pitcher:  Jose Berrios was 8-3, 3.08, 1.11 WHIP with 24 walks and 92 strikeouts in 90.2 innings (15 starts).

FORT MYERS

Batter:  Alex Swim hit .311/.349/.360 in 344 at-bats.

Pitcher:  Mat Batts was 8-4, 2.77, 1.12 WHIP with 17 walks and 85 strikeouts in 100.2 innings (17 starts).

CEDAR RAPIDS

Batter:  Tanner English hit .265/.359/-406 in 377 at-bats.  He was 37-for-44 in stolen bases.

Pitcher:  Felix Jorge was 6-7, 2.79, 1.06 WHIP with 32 walks and 114 strikeouts in 142 innings (22 starts, 1 relief appearance).

ELIZABETHTON

Batter:  LaMonte Wade hit .312/.428/.506 in 231 at-bats.

Pitcher:  Andro Cutura was 3-2, 1.34, 1.01 WHIP with 15 walks and 49 strikeouts in 60.2 innings (11 starts).

GCL TWINS

Batter:  Jermaine Palacios hit .421/.472/.589 in 95 at-bats.  He was 4-for-6 in stolen bases.

Pitcher:  Williams Ramirez was 4-3, 1.05, 0.88 WHIP with 20 walks and 58 strikeouts in 51.1 innings (10 starts, 1 relief appearance).

DSL TWINS

Batter:  Jean Carlos Arias hit .311/.378/.537 and was 11-for-17 in stolen bases in 164 at-bats.

Pitcher:  Jadison Jimenez was 6-3, 2.45, 1.21 WHIP with 15 walks and 87 strikeouts in 77 innings (14 starts, 1 relief appearance).

3 thoughts on “Minor League Players of the Year”

    1. Any future? I think so. He'll be twenty-seven in May and he doesn't strike very many guys out, so his upside is probably fairly limited. Still, in 33 AAA starts, he has a 2.67 ERA and a 1.14 WHIP. He walks very few and has given up less than a hit per inning in AAA. He'll never be a star, but anyone who can pitch that well in AAA has earned a shot, in my opinion.

  2. Mat Batts

    If only one of the "T"'s was in the other word this would be a complete sentence

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