Notes and Team Leaders: Elizabethton Twins

For rate stats, we're using an arbitrary cut-off of 80 at-bats and 25 innings.

OPS

Lewin Diaz, .928
Travis Blankenhorn, .900
Brandon Lopez, .883

AVG

Lopez, .337
Diaz, .310
Alex Kirilloff, .306

OBP

Lopez, .470
Diaz, .353
Caleb Hamilton, .351

SLG

Diaz, .575
Blankenhorn, .558
Kirilloff, .454

HR

Amaurys Minier, 10
Blankenhorn, 9
Diaz, 9

DOUBLES

Diaz, 15
Shane Carrier, 14
Kirilloff, 9

RBI

Diaz, 37
Kirilloff, 33
Minier, 32

STOLEN BASES

Ariel Montesino, 7
Lopez, 4
3 tied at 3

ERA

Tyler Beardsley, 2.65
Patrick McGuff, 2.77
Sean Poppen, 2.97

WHIP

Beardsley, 1.12
Tyler Wells, 1.20
Alex Schick, 1.25

WINS

Wells, 5
Schick, 5
Austin Tribby, 5

STRIKEOUTS

Wells, 59
Alex Robinson, 52
Schick, 49

SAVES

Patrick McGuff, 9
Colton Davis, 5
Hector Lujan, 3
Johan Quezada, 3

STARTS

Jose Martinez, 11
Wells, 10
Ryan Mason, 9

GAMES

Lujan, 19
Quezada, 19
McGuff, 18

INNINGS

Domenick Carlini, 50.1
Mason, 49
Martinez, 48
Schick, 48

Brandon Lopez had a fine year in Elizabethton and did okay when promoted to Cedar Rapids, too.  He has very little power, with only nine extra-base hits (8 doubles, 1 triple) in 162 at-bats.  But he hit .337 with an OBP of .470 in Elziabethton and hit .286 with an OBP of .393 in Cedar Rapids.  A tenth-round draft choice, he turned twenty-three about ten days ago.

One could argue that Lewin Diaz should've been in Cedar Rapids by the end of the year, but at age nineteen, it was probably okay to leave him in Elizabethton.  He had a pretty good year, though:  .310/.353/.575.  He was second in the league in slugging.

Alex Kirilloff got his career off to a fine start.  He hit .306/.341/.454.  He tailed off badly toward the end of the season, going just 4-for-32 in his last ten games.  He'll turn nineteen in November.

Ben Rortvedt's numbers don't look all that great--.250/.348/.250--but it's only forty at-bats, and he got off to a terrible start, going 1-for-14 before finishing 9-for-26.  No extra-base hits isn't a good sign, but it's probably not enough at-bats to mean much of anything.  He'll turn nineteen next Sunday.

Amaurys Minier hit ten home runs and had 32 RBIs.  He also batted .222 and struck out 62 times in 167 at-bats.  Those numbers are better than he did in Elizabethton in 2015, but the only major difference is an increase in power.  He'll turn twenty-one in January.

The pitchers are mostly an exercise in small sample size theater.  Tyler Beardsley went 2-0, 2.65, 1.12 WHIP with 33 strikeouts in 34 innings.  He only walked six.  He'll be twenty-three in May.

Tyler Wells went 5-2, 3.23, 1.20 with 59 strikeouts in 47.1 innings.   A fifteenth-round draft choice, he turned twenty-two in August.

Austin Tribby went 5-0 and struck out thirty in 31.2 innings.  The trouble with Tribby is that those are about his only good numbers.  His ERA was 5.40, his WHIP was 1.83, and he gave up forty-four hits.  He turned twenty-two in July and was a thirty-fifth round draft choice.

Alex Schick had a good year in every stat but ERA.  He was 5-2, he had a WHIP of 1.25, he struck out 49 and walked just 15 in 48 innings, but his ERA was 5.25.  He didn't give up a lot of home runs, either.  I assume that when he fell apart he fell apart quickly, so that the hits came in bunches before they could get him out of there.  It also could be that the bullpen allowed a lot of inherited runners to score.  He's a sixth-round draft choice who will turn twenty-two in December.

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