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Atlanta Braves Off-Day Chop: Majors and minors

By Alan Carpenter

MIAMI, FL - SEPTEMBER 27: Pitcher Daniel Winkler #70 of the Atlanta Braves stands during singing of 'God Bless America' in the seventh inning of play against the Miami Marlins at Marlins Park on September 27, 2015 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Joe Skipper/Getty Images)
MIAMI, FL - SEPTEMBER 27: Pitcher Daniel Winkler #70 of the Atlanta Braves stands during singing of 'God Bless America' in the seventh inning of play against the Miami Marlins at Marlins Park on September 27, 2015 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Joe Skipper/Getty Images) /
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PHOENIX, AZ – FEBRUARY 28: New baseballs are delivered to the home plate umpire prior to a game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Kansas City Royals at Maryvale Baseball Park on February 28, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images)
PHOENIX, AZ – FEBRUARY 28: New baseballs are delivered to the home plate umpire prior to a game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Kansas City Royals at Maryvale Baseball Park on February 28, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images) /

SALLY LEAGUE

The season’s second half is underway for all split-season leagues.  Rome is now 4-5 and in the middle of the Southern division pack.

They finished the first half at 38-32, good for third place, 3.5 games behind Greenville, with Tim Tebow’s Columbia Fireflies right on their heels.

Bryse Wilson leads their pitching staff with almost 80 innings, and he’s also keeping runners off base a lot, with a 1.07 WHIP, striking out nearly 1 per inning and walking just 21.  Those are solid numbers to go with a 2.82 ERA.

Joey Wentz and Ian Anderson are doing likewise, though with a few more walks – Anderson in particular:  34 in 65 innings and a 1.39 WHIP.

Rome has a bunch of hitters raking the ball well:  Randy Ventura, Cristian Pache, Juan Yepez, and Lucas Herbert are all hitting above .270, though no one on the club is OPS’ing over .800… save for Brett Cumberland and his 10 homers (.964 OPS).

FLORIDA STATE LEAGUE

The Fire Frogs scored a lot early on in their first half, but otherwise stumbled to a 25-41 last place finish, losing 3 straight to complete that portion of their schedule, worst in the entire league.

While they are now in 5th place to begin the second half, their 4-5 record is just 2 games out of first, so things are looking up a bit.

Tyler Neslony is the guy that few want up to overlook.  The 23-year-old right fielder is hitting .299 at the moment with 3 homers, 16 doubles and an .801 OPS.

This squad also has Alex Jackson (.274/.846 OPS, 13 2B, 10 HR), Austin Riley (.250/.715, 8 2B, 11 HR), and Braxton Davidson (.225/.703, 8 2B, 5 HR).

Catcher Brett Cumberland was recently promoted here, but is having trouble getting going:  .143 in 28 AB.

Ray-Patrick Didder is not having a good Summer… hitting .202 with 7 errors in the outfield.

Touki Toussaint is also struggling:  5.90 ERA with a 1.47 WHIP and walking almost 1 every other inning… though also K’ing 87 in 79 innings.  In fact, out of their rotation, only Luiz Gohara (now promoted) and Tyler Pike (2.20 ERA, 1.19 WHIP) were doing well at all.

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