Atlanta Braves lower affiliate results
Of note: Jake had a deeper look at some individual players recently, so this report will focus more on their teams in general.
AUGUSTA GREEN JACKETS
- Low-A EAST
- Columbia series: 3-3
- Myrtle Beach series: 2-4
- Fayetteville series: 3-2, game 6 just underway.
- Overall: 8-9, third place (of 4) in the South Division of the Low-A league. Columbia is 1st; Myrtle Beach is 4th.
The Jackets have been scoring a lot… and often giving up a lot of runs, too. Games scores have ranged from 1-0 (a win) to 11-10 (a loss). They lost one 12-2 and turned around to win 13-2 on the next day.
The team is 4-2 in 1-run games.
Leading hitters: Willie Carter (.326) and Drew Campbell (1.030 OPS)
Leading pitchers: skipping this category for now: no one has enough innings to be ‘qualified’, and thus the ‘small sample size’ problem would be a real thing.
Speed man: Braulio Vasquez leads the entire league (12 teams) with thirteen stolen bases (caught just once)! That’s all the more remarkable given that he’s hitting just .214 with 9 hits and 10 walks.
If he can get past this Billy Hamilton problem of bad hitting (he does have a .400 OBP, but that can’t be sustained when moving up in levels without a bat), this speed could be a story.
ROME BRAVES
- High-A EAST (12 Teams; member of 7-team South Division)
- Winston-Salem series: 4-2
- Greensboro series: 3-3
- Bowling Green series: 3-2; finale in progress
- Overall: 10-7, second place
Relatively low-scoring club, but still boasts a +10 run differential, which comes from a pitching staff surrendering the third-fewest runs in the league. They are 3-3 in 1-run games.
Leading hitters: Michael Harris (.359, .914 OPS). That average is 2nd in the league while 1st in hits. He’s only walked 3 times, but K’d 25% of his official AB’s (16 of 64).
Cody Milligan is hitting .357 — third in the league.
Leading pitchers: same problem as above… will check on them more in a future edition of this report.