Astros Minor League Pitchers and Players of the Week

It's time to look back at Week 22+ and acknowledge some winning performances for the period commencing Sunday, August 24th and continuing through the end of regular season play on Monday, September 1st. The Player and Pitchers for the Month of August (plus a day) will come out tomorrow (I hope!).

PLAYER OF THE WEEK

Many, many players ended their regular seasons on a high note. All of these players had noteworthy performances. My nominees (in no particular order) ~

3B/1B Randy Cesar (GCL/Greeneville)

.381/.409/.810 in 5 games
5R 3-2B 2HR 5RBI 1BB 1SO

3B J.D. Davis (Quad Cities)

.290/.371/.774 in 9 games
5R 5HR 13RBI 4BB 9SO 2SB 0CS

OF Domingo Santana (Oklahoma City)

.348/.528/.565 in 8 games
6R 2-2B HR 11RBI 10BB 11SO 0SB 1CS

1B A.J. Reed (Quad Cities)

.389/.389/.667 in 9 games
8R 4-2B 2HR 8RBI 0BB 9SO

OF Jorge Martinez (GCL/Tri-City)
.280/.321/.720 in 8 games
6R 2-2B 3HR 6RBI 2BB 6SO 2SB 0CS

2B Austin Elkins (Lancaster)
.350/.552/.450 in 6 games
6R 2-2B 2RBI 6BB 7SO

2B Tony Kemp (Corpus Christi)
.400/.500/.500 in 8 games
7R 3-2B 5RBI 5BB 4SO 3SB 0CS

OF Preston Tucker (Oklahoma City)
.407/.500/.444 in 8 games
4R 2B 4RBI 6BB 4SO

OF Ryan Bottger (Quad Cities)
.379/.457/.448 in 9 games
5R 2-2B 3RBI 4BB 5K 2SB 0CS

1B/3B Matt Duffy (Oklahoma City)

.375/.429/.531 in 8 games

6R 3-2B 3B 3RBI 3BB 5SO

OF/2B Marc Wik (Quad Cities)

.320/.500/.480 in 8 games

10R 4-2B 2RBI 9BB 10SO 4SB 1CS

OF James Ramsay (Lancaster)

.320/.433/.560 in 7 games

5R 2B 3B HR RBI 3BB 7SO 1SB 1CS

Even though many of those performances were excellent, there were two that stood out for me. And since I'm tired and don't feel like making any more decisions in my life right now, I'm going to award co-winners for this week. So with no further ado, the winners are ...

1B/3B Tyler White (Lancaster)

.310/.462/.759 in 8 games
8R 4-2B 3HR 9RBI 6BB 5SO

OF Brandon Meredith (Corpus Christi)
.323/.400/.677 in 8 games
8R 2-2B 3HR* 12 RBI 4BB 5SO 2SB 0CS
*Including an 8th inning Grand Slam for the go-ahead runs in the final game of the season

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 1B/3B TYLER WHITE AND OF BRANDON MEREDITH

Tyler White - June 2014

Photo by Jayne Hansen

Brandon Meredith - August 2014

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STARTING (TANDEM) PITCHER OF THE WEEK

The starting crew definitely didn't run out of gas to end the season. Honorable mentions go to some strikeout artists: Oklahoma City's Rudy Owens (9SO in 7.2IP); Corpus Christi's Mark Appel (14SO in 12.2IP) and Mike Hauschild (8SO in 4IP); Lancaster's Kyle Westwood (8SO in 6.1IP); Quad Cities' Kevin Comer (10SO in 6IP), Adrian Houser (8SO in 6IP), Blaine Sims (12SO in 12IP), and Chris Lee (9SO in 7.2IP); Greeneville's Harold Arauz (9SO in 8.2IP) and Brock Dykxhoorn (10K in 5IP and Appy League Pitcher of the Week); and Justin Ferrell in the GCL (7 SO in 4IP).

But, to me, there was one clear winner ~

RHP Jordan Jankowski (Corpus Christi)
0.90 ERA/0.600 WHIP .114 BA
10IP (2 games/2 starts) 4H 1R 2BB 14SO

Jordan Jankowski - April 2014

Photo by Jayne Hansen

STARTING (TANDEM) PITCHER OF THE WEEK: RHP JORDAN JANKOWSKI

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RELIEF PITCHER OF THE WEEK

Honorable mentions this week go to Oklahoma City's Jorge de Leon and Ross Seaton; and Tri-City's Bryan Radziewski and Aaron Vaughn. However, I just can't seem to narrow down my runners-up so let's just go with it (in no particular order) ~

LHP Ambiorix de Leon (Greeneville)
0.00 ERA/0.375 WHIP
2.2IP (2 games) 1H 0BB 4SO

LHP Kyle Gehrs (GCL)
0.00 ERA/0.429 WHIP
4.2IP (2 games) 0H 2BB 4SO
2 inherited runners/0 scored

RHP Eric Peterson (Greeneville) - Save
0.00 ERA/0.500 WHIP
2.1IP (2 games) 0H 1BB 1SO

RHP Tyson Perez (Corpus Christi) - Save
0.00 ERA/0.750 WHIP
4IP (4 games) 1H 2BB (one intentional) 3SO
1 inherited runner/0 scored

RHP Derick Velazquez (Tri-City) - Win & Save
0.00 ERA/0.800 WHIP
5IP (3 games) 4H 0BB 4SO
1 inherited runner/0 scored

LHP David Rollins (Corpus Christi)
0.00 ERA/0.682 WHIP
7.1IP (4 games) 3H 2BB 5SO
2 inherited runners/1 scored

RHP Tyler Brunnemann (Lancaster)
0.00 ERA/0.818 WHIP
3.2IP (3 games) 1H 2BB 6SO
3 inherited runners/2 scored

RHP Samil de los Santos (Greeneville)
0.00 ERA/0.818 WHIP
3.2IP (2 games) 1H 2BB 8SO
2 inherited runners/0 scored

RHP Keegan Yuhl (Quad Cities) - 2 Saves
0.00 ERA/0.900 WHIP
3.1IP (3 games) 1H 2BB 6SO
1 inherited runner/0 scored

My winner gets the nod because, despite missing almost the whole season, he came through in the clutch at the end. After making one start for Greeneville in June, he missed almost two months before making three rehab appearances with the GCL (in which he allowed only two hits, no walks, no runs and collected a save). After finally making it back to Greeneville, he gets called into a game with the based loaded for his first game back. Easy, breezy ... a quick strikeout and he saved Jorge Perez' bacon. That, to me, is what a good relief pitcher does best so with no further ado I give you ....

RHP Gerardo Juarez (GCL/Greeneville) - Save
0.00 ERA/0.000 WHIP
2IP (2 games) 0H 0BB 1SO
4 inherited runners/0 scored

Gerardo Juarez - July 2014

Photo by Jayne Hansen

RELIEF PITCHER OF THE WEEK: RHP GERARDO JUAREZ