Atlanta Braves Minor League Monday, August 17

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Atlanta Braves Minor League Monday

To start the week, we’ll review the transactions of the last week:
Promoted to Atlanta: P Peter Moylan
Demoted to Gwinnett: P Jake Brigham, P Ryan Kelly
Promoted to Gwinnett: 1B Freddie Freeman (on rehab)
Promoted to Mississippi: P Andrew Thurman
Promoted to Carolina: P Yean Carlos Gill
Assigned to Rome: IF Hector Olivera
Promoted to Rome: P Trevor Belicek
Promoted to Danville: OF Ronald Acuna
Demoted to GCL: OF Kelvin Estevez, P Fernando Miranda
Placed on DL: Mississippi OF David Rohm, Carolina P Rob Whalen, Rome 3B Jordan Edgerton

Highlight Player of the Week:

Signed from independent ball before the season, Seth Webster wasn’t a likely guy to be the Braves winningest (yeah, I made up a word – enjoy!) pitcher on the season. Instead, Webster has easily been the most consistent guy in Carolina’s rotation this year. Webster has thrown all but one start (on rehab at Rome after the bus crash) for the Mudcats this year, hurling 16 games, 15 of them starts, and 103 2/3 innings for the Mudcats this year. His game Sunday was a pure gem, going 7 scoreless innings and striking out 8. On the season, Webster has recorded a remarkable 82/7 K/BB ratio. You read that right, 7 total walks on the whole season!

Webster is a guy who didn’t get a lot of attention out of Louisiana College in the draft because his velocity is certainly nothing to write home about, and with average to below-average velocity and being right-handed, he was easy to pass over. Instead, the 26 year-old has shown this season that the plane of his extremely heavy sinker located at the bottom of the zone will cause ball upon ball to be pounded into the dirt for easy outs. It helps that Webster doesn’t hurt himself with walks or wildness. Webster is 6’5 and is listed at 205 pounds, which seems about right if perhaps 5-10 pounds on the light side, but he does have a very wide frame to work from.

Webster may never be a guy who makes the majors and leads the rotation, but then again, I would have told you that he wouldn’t have even made the Mudcat rotation to start the 2015 season, and here he is leading the entire Braves system in wins, so it’s probably best not to sell him short!

Let’s look at the weekend’s games!

Next: Gwinnett Braves Report