Brandon Laird is your Double-A Eastern League Player of the Month for May thanks to his .339-.374-.591 batting line with nine doubles, six homers, and a cycle. Hard to believe that Laird is just the second player from the Trenton franchise to win the Player of the Month away since they started handing it out in 1997. The other guy was some scrappy little infielder named David Eckstein, who won it when Trenton was Boston’s Double-A affiliate in 1999.
Corban Joseph got some love in the Team Photo section of this week’s Prospect Hot Sheet.
Triple-A Scranton (3-2 loss to Gwinnett)
Reid Gorecki, RF: 1 for 2, 1 R, 2 BB, 1 SB – threw a runner out at first
Reegie Corona, 2B, Eduardo Nunez, SS & Greg Golson, CF: all 1 for 4 – Corona doubled, drove in a run, scored another & K’ed twice … Nunez drove in a run … Golson K’ed
Chad Huffman, LF, David Winfree, 1B & Colin Curtis, DH: all 0 for 4 – Curtis K’ed … Juan Miranda didn’t play today after being taken out of last night’s game for an unknown reason, so he might be hurt
Jesus Montero, C: 0 for 2, 2 BB, 1 K – threw one of three baserunners out trying to steal second
Romulo Sanchez: 5 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 4 BB, 1 K, 1 Balk, 4-6 GB/FB – 45 of his 82 pitches were strikes (54.9%)
Royce Ring: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 1-1 GB/FB – just nine of his 20 pitches were strikes (45%)
Boone Logan: 2 IP, zeroes, 1 K, 1-4 Gb/FB – 16 of his 24 pitches were strikes (66.7%)