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Congratulations to this weeks selection of our F&D Pro Player(s) of the
Week.
This week we could
have quite easily decided not to split EIGHT players to award our
PRO PLAYER(s) OF THE WEEK, however, we ultimately concluded that we
would have to be very tough on three pitchers who performed superbly
this past week. In the end our line of separation was to nominate
those who were scoreless for the week, while providing "Honourable
Mention" for the other unlucky three.
The very unlucky
ones were LIAM HENDRIKS, PETER MOYLAN and JOHN
HUSSEY. Hendriks made a high quality winning start for
Minnesota's 'AAA' Rochester where he struck out five across his six
inning stint. Moylan made four relief appearances for the Dodgers' 'AAA'
Albuquerque that reaped him a win and a save. Hussey's two relief
outings yielded just one run from his five innings of work with four
strike outs included.
For the third
straight week to start our PPOW season, we simply could not ignore
the wonderfully consistent batting of Minnesota's 'AA' short stop
JAMES BERESFORD who racked up a .375 average this week to follow
even higher averages the previous two weeks. Although TRENT
OELTJEN owned a slightly lower average with .346 for the Angels'
'AAA' team Salt Lake, we did not miss the three doubles, a triple
and a home run that gave him a .654 slugging percentage for the
week.
The three pitchers
who boasted a scoreless week of pitching were major leaguers
GRANT BALFOUR and TRAVIS BLACKLEY, as did recent major
leaguer RYAN ROWLAND-SMITH. Balfour collected two saves from
his 4.1 scoreless innings for the Oakland As with five punch outs.
Blackley's four scoreless relief outings saw just one hit come from
his four tidy innings. Rowland-Smith allowed just two hits from his
total of five innings with Boston's 'AAA' Pawtucket Red Sox.
'Flintoff & Dunn' selected these players for our
top award this week:


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JAMES
BERESFORD
('AA' - New Britain Rock Cats)
5G .375AVG
16AB 1R 6H
1D 2WLK 4RBI .444OB% --
Season .338AVG |
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TRENT
OELTJEN
('AAA' - Salt Lake Bees)
7G .346AVG
26AB 5R 9H
3D 1T 1HR 5RBI .654SLG% --
Season .209AVG |
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GRANT
BALFOUR
('MLB' -
Oakland Athletics)
4G 0-0, 0.00ERA 4.1IP 3H
0ER
3BB 5K 2SV -- Season 0-0, 2.03ERA |
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TRAVIS
BLACKLEY
('MLB' - Houston Astros)
4G 0-0, 0.00ERA 4.0IP 1H
0ER
3BB 2K -- Season 0-0, 3.60ERA |
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RYAN
ROWLAND-SMITH
('AAA' - Pawtucket Red Sox)
2G 0-0, 0.00ERA 5.0IP 2H
0ER
0BB 1K -- Season 2-0, 0.52ERA |
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Liam HENDRIKS |
(Twins 'AAA' Rochester RedWings) |
1G 1-0, 3.00ERA 6.0ip 7h 2er
0bb 5k |
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Pete MOYLAN |
(Dodgers 'AAA' Albuquerque Isotopes) |
4G 1-0, 2.25ERA 4.0ip 3h 1er
1bb 5k |
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John HUSSEY |
(Padres 'A' Fort Wayne Tin Caps) |
2G 0-0, 1.80ERA 5.0ip 3h 1er
0bb 4k |
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