Iowa
Brett Jackson is relevant because of his slugging. In the last 3 games he has 3 HR's and a bunch of strikeouts like always. His average is in the 200's his OBP in the 300's but he is slugging over .500 and thats not a bad thing to have. Josh Vitters went 1-3 and is now batting .287 on the year. The guys over at Cubs Den were looking at some numbers the other day and while Vitters looks at very few pitches per AB he also almost never swings outside of the zone. He seems to be selectively aggressive which is what you want to have. He also has a very high contact rate for pitches in the zone which is another good sign.
Smokies
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Daytona
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Peoria
When I saw that Peoria had scored 12 runs I was hoping 8 of them came from Javier Baez but sadly he only went 1-5 with a run scored. Most of the damage was caused by Zeke DeVoss who was 1-3 with a HR and 2 BB and his 17th SB to boot. Dustin Geiger also had a game going 1-4 with a HR. On the pitching side Yao Lin Wa...
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