Durham Bulls - September 5th
Montgomery Biscuits - September 5th
Charlotte Stone Crabs - September 4th
Bowling Green Hot Rods - September 5th
Hudson Valley Renegades - September 4th
Princeton Rays - August 30th
GCL Rays - August 27th
VSL Rays - ended August 6th
DSL Rays - ended August 20th
With that in mind, let's take one last look at the Rays single-season minor league records and the 2011 challengers.
Home runs:
Kevin Witt (2006) - 362011: Oscar Hernandez finished with 21 and Derek Dietrich has 21 for Bowling Green. Russ Canzler is third with 18, followed by Stephen Vogt, Phil Wunderlich and John Shelby at 16.
Scott McClain (1998) - 34
Dan Johnson (2010) - 30
Ryan Royster (2007) - 30
Jonny Gomes (2002) - 30
RBI:
Steve Cox (1999) - 1272011: Stephen Vogt leads with 100 and should easily make the record book. Next are Phil Wunderlich with 80, Russ Canzler with 77, and Greg Sexton with 74.
Delmon Young (2004) - 115
Scott McClain (1998) - 109
Scott McClain (1999) - 104
Ozzie Timmons (1999) - 104
Hits:
Steve Cox (1999) - 1822011: Once again Stephen Vogt leads with 142, followed by Russ Canzler at 135 and Hak-Ju Lee at 133.
Delmon Young (2005) - 176
Joey Gomes (2005) - 172
Matt Diaz (2001) - 172
Matt Diaz (2003) - 170
Carl Crawford (2000) - 170
Batting average (minimum 316 PA):
Jason Pridie (2002) - .3682011: Oscar Hernandez barely missed the record book at .402 in 294 plate appearances, just short of the required 316 PA cutoff. Among qualifiers, Russ Canzler leads at .316, followed by Brandon Guyer at .311 and (of course) Stephen Vogt at .307.
Matt Diaz (2003) - .354
Stephen Vogt (2010) - .345
Steve Cox (1999) - .341
Toby Hall (2001) - .335
Runs scored:
Fernando Perez (2006) - 1232011: Hak-Ju Lee has 89, Tim Beckham 88, and Tyler Bortnick and Cody Rogers each have 85.
Steve Cox (1999) - 107
Scott McClain (1999) - 106
Jason Pridie (2004) - 103
Jonny Gomes (2002) - 102
Stolen bases:
Alex Sanchez (1997) - 922011: Tyler Bortnick leads with 41 steals, followed by Hak-Ju Lee with 31.
Joey Gathright (2003) - 69
Ty Morrison (2010) - 58
Fernando Perez (2005) - 57
Carl Crawford (2000) - 55
Wins:
Heath Rollins (2007) - 172011: Alex Colome and George Jensen are tied with 12, followed by Matt Moore and Victor Mateo with 11.
Chris Mason (2007) - 15
Andy Sonnanstine (2006) - 15
Richard De Los Santos (2010) - 14
Jeremy Hall (2009) - 14
Andy Sonnanstine (2005) - 14
Chris Seddon (2004) - 14
Scott Autrey (2003) - 14
ERA (minimum 130 IP):
Chad Gaudin (2003) - 1.812011: Matt Moore is safely in the record book with a 1.91 ERA in 137.0 innings. C.J. Riefenhauser will be close, he's at 2.53 through 124.2.
Jason Standridge (1999) - 2.02
Darin Downs (2009) - 2.23
Chad Gaudin (2002) - 2.26
Todd Belitz (2002) - 2.42
Innings pitched:
Pablo Ortega (1997) - 188.22011: Alex Colome has 142.1 innings this season, followed by Shane Dyer with 137.2 and Matt Moore with 137.0.
Andy Sonnanstine (2006) - 185.2
Jim Magrane (2001) - 182.0
Dan Wheeler (1998) - 181.0
Andy Sonnanstine (2005) - 180.2
Strikeouts:
Matt Moore (2010) - 2082011: Another entry in the record book for Matt Moore, who leads the way with 188. The only question is whether he can get 21 more Ks to break his own record from last season. A distant second is Alex Torres with 137, followed by Enny Romero with 127.
Andy Sonnanstine (2005) - 178
Matt Moore (2009) - 176
Jake McGee (2007) - 175
Neal Frendling (2000) - 174
Jake McGee (2006) - 171
Wade Davis (2007) - 169
Wade Davis (2006) - 165
Seth McClung (2001) - 165
Mark Malaska (2001) - 165
Saves:
Evan Rust (2002) - 312011: Zach Quate has 19 for Montgomery and Chris Rearick has 17 for Bowling Green.
Lee Gardner (2003) - 30
John Daniels (1997) - 29
Josh Parker (2003) - 28
Eddy Reyes (1999) - 27
Excellent post- informative and interesting facts. Thank you for posting it. :)
ReplyDeleteWrigleys fan club would like to know about the record for 'Doubles" in a season?
ReplyDeleteI haven't done doubles yet for the entire org, but he is getting close to the record for the Montgomery Biscuits.
ReplyDeleteThe record is 35 by Chris Nowak in 2008. Wrigley is in 2nd place with 33. Third place is a tie between Reid Brignac (2007) and Rico Washington (2005) with 30. Gaby Martinez (2008) is in fourth with 29.
For the overall org in 2011 Canzler leads with 39, Wrigley is second at 33, followed by Bortnick, Sheridan and Vogt at 30.
Had Oscar Hernandez had the 22 more plate appearances required to qualify, he would have had a .368 average even if he had gotten out in all 22. I know that's good enough to qualify for MLB batting titles; should it count for this?
ReplyDeleteOne other Wrigley record book note: Mark Thomas has tied Wrigley's Charlotte Stone Crabs single-season home run record with 12. Wrigley set the mark in 2010.
ReplyDeleteAnon, I thought about doing that, at least for Oscar this year. Does MLB do it? I know I've seen writers do it, but don't remember if MLB counts it officially or not.
ReplyDeleteBut I decided against it. For one thing it's kind of silly, we know he'd get some walks and some hits, so it's a made up number. The biggest reason though is that I'd have to go back and do it for any other players in the history of the org who missed the PA cutoff but had a high average. So it's half because of principle and half laziness.
Thank You Doug from the Wrigley fan club....good info !
ReplyDeleteWrigley put up 12 bombs in the first half last year.
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