Mookie Betts is SAL Player of the Week
Second baseman Mookie Betts (7) of the Greenville Drive, right, is congratulated after scoring in the first inning of a game against the Augusta GreenJackets on Friday, May 10, 2013, at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina. (Tom Priddy/Four Seam Images)
Greenville Drive second baseman Mookie Betts has been named the South Atlantic League Player of the Week for May 6-12.
Chris Stratton of the Augusta GreenJackets
Pitcher Chris Stratton (22) of the Augusta GreenJackets warms up before a game against the Greenville Drive on Thursday, May 9, 2013, at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina. Stratton was a first-round pick by the San Francisco Giants in the 2012 First-Year Player Draft. He is also the No. 3 prospect for the Giants. Augusta won, 6-3. (Tom Priddy/Four Seam Images)
Power’s Orlando Castro, Pitcher of the Week
Pitcher Orlando Castro (22) of the West Virginia Power in a game against the Greenville Drive on Tuesday, April 16, 2013, at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina. West Virginia won, 8-3. (Tom Priddy/Four Seam Images)
Orlando Castro, who pitched for the West Virginia Power in a game against the Greenville Drive on April 16, is the South Atlantic League Pitcher of the Week.
MiLB.com puts his line at:
(1-0, 0.00 ERA, 1 G, 1 GS, 6 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 HR, 0 HBP, 0 BB, 7 K)
MiLB.com goes on to say: “In 33 innings this season, Castro has struck out 29 and walked one, and he ranks second in the Sally League in WHIP (0.82) and fifth in ERA (1.36).”
Kendrick Perkins of the Greenville Drive broken bat
Kendrick Perkins of the Greenville Drive breaks his bat in a game against the Charleston RiverDogs on Saturday, April 6, 2013, at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina. Charleston won Game 1 of a doubleheader, 6-2. (Tom Priddy/Four Seam Images)
Some people really like broken-bat photos. Me, I’m just ambivalent because the batter’s face is usually hidden, and I don’t like that. But here’s one I shot last month and just rediscovered for anyone so inclined.
Pitcher Josh Hader of the Delmarva Shorebirds
Starting pitcher Josh Hader (17) of the Delmarva Shorebirds in a game against the Greenville Drive on Friday, April 26, 2013, at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina. Hader is listed as the No. 18 prospect of the Baltimore Orioles, according to Baseball America. (Tom Priddy/Four Seam Images)
I know some pitchers seem to have a smoking fastball, but this is ridiculous.
2013 Greenville Drive team photo
Members of the 2013 Opening Day roster for the Greenville Drive pose for a team photo during Media Day just prior to the start of the 2013 season on Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina. (Tom Priddy/Four Seam Images)
Braves catcher Evan Gattis makes opening day roster
Catcher Evan Gattis (36) of the Rome Braves, Class A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves, prior to the first game of a doubleheader against the Greenville Drive on August 15, 2011, at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina. Rome defeated Greenville, 6-3. (Tom Priddy/Four Seam Images)
I love a good Minor League success story, and the saga of catcher Evan Gattis of the Atlanta Braves certainly qualifies. Gattis, whose personal struggles were discussed in a Sports Illustrated profile last week, was named today to the Braves’ opening day roster, never having played a day above Class AA.
Joey Votto in 2004 with Class A Potomac
24 August 2004: Joey Votto (22) of the Potomac Cannons, Class A affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds, taken at Pfitzner Stadium, Woodbridge, Virginia. (Tom Priddy/Four Seam Images)
MiLB.com posted photos of Joey Votto in several of his Minor League uniforms today, but they left out his uniform with the Class A Potomac Cannons. So here it is.
Jackie Bradley Jr. in the spotlight at SC event
Boston Red Sox prospect outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. speaks with a TV reporter at the Greenville Drive’s annual Hot Stove Event on Tuesday, January 29, 2013, in Greenville, South Carolina. Bradley is ranked No. 32 prospect in the country for the 2013 season by MLB.com. (Tom Priddy/Four Seam Images)
Tuesday night, even as former Gamecock and former Greenville Drive outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. was talking with fans in downtown Greenville, the MLB Network was getting ready to air its new Top 100 prospects list.
Not long after I got home from photographing Bradley and the other notables at the Greenville Drive’s annual Hot Stove Event at Zen in the West End, I flipped on the TV and watched as Jonathan Mayo announced Bradley as No. 32. Mayo said Bradley is someone “who’s looked at as a likely replacement for free-agent-to-be Jacoby Ellsbury . . ..”
Bradley signed autographs for fans, posed for photos, talked with TV reporters and generally showed how comfortable he is even in the spotlight.
A look at the prospects in the Atlanta Braves’ trade
RHP Zeke Spruill of the Atlanta Braves at Spring Training camp on March 14, 2009, at Disney’s Wide World of Sports in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (Tom Priddy/Four Seam Images)
The Atlanta Braves acquired outfielder Justin Upton and third baseman Chris Johnson from the Arizona Diamondbacks Thursday in a trade that sent veteran utility man Martin Prado and starting pitcher Randall Delgado to Arizona.
Also in the deal Arizona received three prospects from Atlanta: pitcher Zeke Spruill, shortstop Nick Ahmed and first baseman Brandon Drury.
Infielder Nick Ahmed (22) of the Danville Braves, Appalachian League affiliate of the Atlanta Braves, prior to a game against the Johnson City Cardinals on August 19, 2011, at Howard Johnson Field in Johnson City, Tennessee. Ahmed was Atlanta’s second-round pick in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft. Danville defeated Johnson City, 5-4, in 16 innings. (Tom Priddy/Four Seam Images)
Infielder Brandon Drury (2) of the Rome Braves, an Atlanta Braves affiliate, in a game against the Greenville Drive on May 6, 2012, at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina. Drury is Atlanta’s No. 10 prospect, according to Baseball America. Greenville won, 11-3. (Tom Priddy/Four Seam Images)
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