Players of the Month
2B Mike Bryant: .404/.465/.711 7 HR 36 RBI 46 hits 12 2B. Why not start out with the league's POTM? For the 3rd time in his career Byrant was named the BSA player of the month for his outstanding play during May. He over .400 for the 2nd straight month and his 46 hits are an unconfirmed team record for a single month. 12 multi-hit games, including 4 games with 4+ hits to go along with 10 multi-RBI games. He leads the BSA in almost every offensive category. Bryant also won back to back player of the week awards to begin the month.
1B Matt Doyle: .353/.448/.716 11 HR 35 RBI. After a terrible April, Doyle broke out in a big way. He climbed to near the top of the charts in both HR and RBI and averaged over an RBI per game. The beginning of the month say Doyle have a 3 game stretch where he had 7 hits, 3 HR and 12 RBI. He and Bryant continue to carry this offense.
3B Alberto Perez: .339/.389/.46 2 HR 13 RBI 24 R 8 2B. Perez just continues to flat out hit. He hit 2nd for the most of the month and flourished with the stick. His 39 hits were only behind the 46 of Bryant and he currently sits in the Top 5 for batting average in the CL with .355 average. The 28 year old has already surpassed his career highs in every category and looks like here is in Jersey to stay.
MR Jose Gomes: 0.00 ERA, 23.0 IP, 0.61 WHIP, 28 K, 7 hits allowed. Hello Dog Pound! Gomes returned to the Gome of old for May and he was nearly unhittable. 7 hits allowed in 23 innings while chalking up 28 K, he was the among the best MR in baseball during the month. He and Saenz have been a deadly 1-2 punch in the back end of the bullpen.
SP Art Ellis: 3-1, 3.31 ERA, 39 K 35.1 IP. Ellis was the most consistent starter for the month and finally lost at the tail end for his first lost in his last 10 outings. He continues to show why he was worth the big contract Jersey handed to him before the year started.
Roster Moves, Questions and Answers
The D-Bags gave us a little treat this month when the called up the #1 hitting prospect in BSA OF Dave Dodd. Dodd has ridiculous raw power and showed it off hitting 3 HR in the 9 games he played in May. Welcome to the show kid. The reason Dodd got the call up was that Leon Foster was sent to the DL with shoulder tendinitis which is really too bad because he was starting to look like the Foster that made the All Star team in his first year in Jersey. Foster plans on being back towards the end of May, possibly early June.
Also in May we watched the continued struggles of Dave Rice, the Bags Rule V MR pick from Chicago. His struggles continued into May and he was eventually offered back to Chicago. Takafumi Ogusuku took his spot in the pen and was just OK having a 5.14 ERA in 7 IP, striking out 7 and walking 6.
The speculation is still out to when we will super pitching prospect SP Jose Ramos. He is starting to look more poised and polished and still just 21 years old. He had the best starter of his career when he struck out 15 batters in a win against Topeka on 5/18 in just 7 innings. GM Josh Swain said there is no time table for his call up, but we will keep a close eye out.
Minor Leaguers of the Month
In the 2nd installment we will introduce 2 more minor leaguers who had great months. Last months MLOTM were Dave Dodd and MR Angel Lara.
Pitcher: Yin-zhen Zong (AAA) 13.0 IP, 2.08 ERA, 19 K. The 25 year old Zong who was a 7th round pick in 2013 has had a couple tough years in AAA. The past two seasons he has started, relieved and closed and both years had an ERA north of 6. And before the month of May his ERA of 5.40 was nothing of interest. Something seemed to have clicked during the last month. He mowed down hitters lowing his season ERA to 3.65 while he is striking out over 12 batters per 9 innings. If this continues he could find himself in the Jersey pen before too long.
Hitter: Lawrence Schroeder (AAA) .344/.383/.611. 7 HR 23 RBI 29 R 45 Hits. Schroeder, the 24 year old SS, just continues to get better. The former 1st round pick played the majority of 2015 in AAA putting up respectable numbers, but nothing like this year. His power has been a surprise to go with some great gap power and high contact which makes his quite the IF threat. He also has a plus glove at SS. With Adam Morrow's struggles on the big club, could we being seeing Schroeder man the field for the Bags anytime soon? He is on pace for 39 HR, 126 RBI and a .355 average in AAA. What more could you ask for?
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