Minor League Weekly Top Performers for June 28, 2022
Minor League Baseball Weekly Top Performers
Incredibly, this is already the last weekly piece of June, meaning we will be heading into the fourth month of the minor league baseball season in next week’s piece! A good week for the San Francisco Giants organization sees both the hitter and pitcher of the week hail from that organization this week.
Hitter of the Week
The shortened 5-round 2020 MLB draft led to a number of excellent players being signed as undrafted free agents. The Giants signed Carter Williams out of North Carolina Central. Williams opened the season with Eugene, but with a number of more highly-regarded prospects getting healthy and being put on the Eugene team, Williams was bumped down to San Jose. The bat has exploded to attempt to convince the parent club that he deserves to be among those highly-regarded outfielders in the organization, as Williams slashed .652/.710/1.174 over the week with eight extra-base hits and a stolen base, scoring nine runs and driving in 10 runs while posting a 6/4 BB/K rate.
Pitcher of the Week
Many minor league evaluators felt that Giants lefty Kyle Harrison had a chance to be the top pitching prospect in the game by the end of this season. While others that were expected to graduate may not end up graduating due to injury, Harrison may still have forced his way to the top of that list with his performance this season. The Giants originally drafted Harrison in the third round in 2020 due to his high price tag that kept other teams away. He leads his impressive repertoire with a fastball that can touch the upper-90s and sits consistently in the mid-90s with excellent late movement. He’s also shown the ability this year to manipulate the horizontal movement on his four-seam fastball, giving hitters a different look on each pitch. He accompanies the fastball with a double-plus slider and a change that is a definite plus, and when he has a consistent feel for it in a game, it works as a double-plus pitch as well. Harrison moved into the minor league strikeout lead this week with an impressive showing at Double-A Richmond. The 20-year-old tossed 12 innings, allowing three runs on four hits and four walks, striking out 20 hitters.
Hitters
AAA
Travis Blankenhorn, Syracuse – .600/.680/1.050, 6 R, 3 2B, 2 HR, 6 RBI, 6/2 BB/K, 3 SB
Vince Fernandez, Las Vegas – .467/.579/1.000, 5 R, 3B, 2 HR, 6 RBI, 3/5 BB/K, 2 SB
Dermis Garcia, Las Vegas – .438/.550/1.125, 6 R, 2 2B, 3 HR, 7 RBI, 4/3 BB/K
Dalton Guthrie, Lehigh Valley – .500/.583/1.050, 9 R, 2 2B, 3 HR, 10 RBI, 3/2 BB/K, SB
Christin Stewart, Worcester – .421/.542/1.158, 6 R, 2 2B, 4 HR, 7 RBI, 4/5 BB/K, SB
AA
Matt Mervis, Tennessee – .333/.385/.905, 5 R, 2B, 3B, 3 HR, 10 RBI, 3/5 BB/K, SB
Hudson Potts, Portland – .457/.556/1.000, 5 R, 2 2B, 2 HR, 3 RBI, 2/3 BB/K
Sean Roby, Richmond – .308/.526/1.000, 4 R, 3 HR, 6 RBI, 6/6 BB/K
Matt Wallner, Wichita – .429/.556/.952, 7 R, 2 2B, 3 HR, 6 RBI, 6/7 BB/K
High-A
Evan Carter, Hickory – .455/.571/909, 8 R, 2B, 3 3B, HR, 8 RBI, 6/4 BB/K, 4 SB
Kenedy Corona, Asheville – .500/.625/1.000, 6 R, 3 HR, 11 RBI, 6/6 BB/K, SB
Jonny DeLuca, Great Lakes – .455/.538/1.000, 6 R, 4 2B, 3B, 2 HR, 7 RBI, 4/3 BB/K
Nasim Nunez, Beloit – .474/.615/.947, 6 R, 2 2B, 2 3B, HR, 4 RBI, 6/1 BB/K, 2 SB
Single-A
Edwin Arroyo, Modesto – .474/.545/1.000, 7 R, 2 2B, 3B, 2 HR, 4 RBI, 2/5 BB/K, SB
Geraldo Quintero, Augusta – .455/.586/.818, 7 R, 4 2B, 2 3B, 6 RBI, 6/4 BB/K, 3 SB
Carter Williams, San Jose – .652/.710/1.174, 9 R, 6 2B, 2 HR, 10 RBI, 6/4 BB/K, SB
Complex Leagues
Jesus Bugarin, ACL Rockies – .500/.500/.938, 6 R, 2 2B, 3B, HR, 6 RBI, 0/4 BB/K
Christopher Familia, FCL Yankees – .643/.706/1.214, 9 R, 2 2B, 2 HR, 6 RBI, 3/1 BB/K
Sandro Gaston, DSL Houston Blue – .500/.588/1.071, 4 R, 2 2B, 2 HR, 5 RBI, 3/2 BB/K
Mairoshendrick Martinus, DSL Dodgers Bautista – .438/.526/.938, 9 R, 3B, 2 HR, 3 RBI, 2/3 BB/K, 2 SB
Javier Sanoja, FCL Marlins – .400/.500/.900, 9 R, 2 2B, 3B, 2 HR, 6 RBI, 4/0 BB/K, 2 SB
Pitchers
AAA
Brayan Bello, Worcester – 12 2/3 IP, 10 H, 2 ER, 4 BB, 14 K
Ethan Small, Nashville – 7 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 10 K
Logan Verrett, Rochester – 12 2/3 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 3 BB, 12 K
AA
Logan Allen, Akron – 7 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 11 K
Kyle Harrison, Richmond – 12 IP, 4 H, 3 ER, 4 BB, 20 K
Kai-Wei Teng, Richmond – 6 1/3 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 3 BB, 11 K
High-A
DJ Herz, South Bend – 4 2/3 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 3 BB, 10 K
Wil Jensen, Eugene – 10 2/3 IP, 10 H, 0 ER, 5 BB, 12 K
Zach King, Beloit – 7 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 11 K
Mason Montgomery, Bowling Green – 8 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 4 BB, 17 K
Yusniel Padron-Artiles, Greenville – 9 IP, 5 H, 0 ER, 6 BB, 12 K
Robinson Pina, Tri-City – 7 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 2 BB, 13 K
Nick Swiney, Eugene – 6 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 2 BB, 12 K
Single-A
Alex Cornwell, Palm Beach – 12 IP, 9 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 14 K
Complex Leagues
Dylan Burns, ACL White Sox – 6 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 11 K
Luis Cohen, DSL Boston Blue – 8 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 6 BB, 12 K
Luis De La Rosa, FCL Red Sox – 9 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 3 BB, 12 K
Jose Fleury, DSL Houston Orange – 5 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 10 K
Layonel Ovalles, FCL Mets – 6 1/3 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 11 K
Statistical leaders across minors (min. 100 AB or 50 IP for rate stats)
Hitting
AVG – Jordan Lawlar .369, Nomar Mazara .369, Austin Wynns .365, Carter Williams .360, Alex Kirilloff .359
OBP – Austin Wynns .504, Emmanuel Rodriguez .492, Esteury Ruiz .478, Jordan Lawlar .471, Meibrys Viloria .471
SLG – Trayce Thompson .721, Matt Davidson .711, Moises Gomez .705, Sean Bouchard .683, Nolan Gorman .677
HR – Kerry Carpenter/Matt Gorski/Moises Gomez 23, Nicholas Northcut 22, David Villar 20
SB – Max Ferguson 51, Esteury Ruiz 48, Omar De Los Santos 43, Wilderd Patino 37, Bubba Thompson 36
wRC+ – Emmanuel Rodriguez 199, Niko Kavadas198, Alex Kirilloff 194, Trey Cabbage 181, Jordan Lawlar/Carter Williams/Esteury Ruiz 180
Pitching
GP – Zach Lee 32, Zach McAllister/Kaleb Ort/Tyler Clippard 29, Four with 28
IP – Peyton Battenfield 84 2/3, Gordon Graceffo 81, Victor Santos 80, Brayan Bello 79 2/3, Bryan Hoeing 78
ERA – Joe Boyle 0.72, Taylor Dollard 0.82, Gavin Stone 1.33, Austin Vernon 1.34, Ricky Tiedemann 1.40
WHIP – Jack Leftwich 0.78, Gordon Graceffo 0.79, Ricky Tiedemann 0.79, Casey Lawrence 0.82, Chance Kirby 0.82
K – Kyle Harrison 109, Brayan Bello 106, Mason Montgomery 105, Royber Salinas/Logan Allen 104
FIP – Grayson Rodriguez 1.66, Jack Leftwich 1.76, Ricky Tiedemann 1.79, Gavin Stone 2.02, Reese Olson 2.07
Benjamin Chase
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