Thursday, October 8, 2015

Post 2015 MILB Top 100

The First top 100 list is out and the Heroes are all over it. 16 Heroes make the list while another 17 player lay unowned

3. SP Lucas Giolito
8. 2B Yoan Moncada
13. 3B Rafael Devers
25. OF Manuel Margot
26. OF Bradley Zimmer
36. SP Robert Stephenson
37. SS Willy Adames
38. SS Tim Anderson
39. SP Archie Bradley
43. SP Mark Appel
45. SP Jameson Taillon
81. 2B Forrest Wall
82. SS Amed Rosario
91. 1B A.J. Reed
99. OF Raimel Tapia
100. SP Jack Flaherty

Monday, October 5, 2015

2015 Little Hero of the Year

AJ reed was named little Hero of the Year.

Former University of Kentucky star AJ Reed was named the Hero minor league player of the year on Monday.

Reed led all of minor league baseball in home runs (34), RBI (127), runs scored (113), slugging percentage (.612) and on-base plus slugging percentage (1.044) while splitting the season between Class A Advanced Lancaster and Double-A Corpus Christi.

"AJ quickly established himself as a professional hitter with big-time power in his first full season in the minors," Astros director of player development Quinton McCracken said in a report on MLB.com.

AJ Reed was a 5th round pick by the Heroes in the 2015 draft and maybe one of the steals of the draft at this point.


Top 5 vote getters were
1. 1B AJ Reed
2. SP Lucas Giolito
3. OF Bradley Zimmer
4. 2B Yoan Moncada
5. SS Tim Anderson


Here is the complete list of Little Heroes of the year

2007 1B Billy Butler KC
2008 1B Logan Morrison Fla
2009 SP Arodys Vizcaino NYY
2010 OF Mike Trout LAA
2011 1B Anthony Rizzo SD
2012 OF Adam Eaton Arz
2013 SP Yordano Ventura KC
2014 SP Lucas Giolito Was
2015 1B AJ Reed Hou

Sunday, October 4, 2015

2015 Hero of the Year

OF Michael Conforto was named Hero of the year for 2015. He played over 3 levels this year, starting the year in high A, moving to AA, then the majors. He was a 2015 1st round pick by the Heroes #11 overall, this makes him the highest Hero pick ever to make there MLB debut still with the Heroes.

High A .287 7HR 28RBI .811ops
AA .312 5HR 26RBI .899ops
MLB .270 9HR 26RBI .841ops


Past Winners
2007 3B David Wright .325avg 30HR 107RBI 34SB .963OPS
2008 2B Dustin Pedrioa .325avg 17HR 20SB 83RBI 117Runs .869OPS
2009 1B Price Fielder .299Avg 46HR 141RBI 1.014OPS
2010 3B Ryan Zimmerman .307avg 25HR 85RBI 85Runs .894OPS
2011 2B Dustin Pedrioa .307avg 21HR 91RBI 102Runs 86BB 26SB .861OPS
2012 1B Prince Fielder .313avg 30HR 108RBI 83Runa 85BB .940ops
2013 1B Joey Votto .305avg 24HR 73RBI, 103Runs, 135BB, .926OPS
2014 OF Lorenzo Cain .301avg 5HR 53Rbi 55runs 28SB .751OPS
2015 OF Michael Conforto .270avg 9HR 26RBI .841ops



Saturday, October 3, 2015

2015 Kelly's Ace of the Year

Noah Syndergaard was named Kelly's Ace of the year for 2015. He pitch well from the moment he got called up but pitched great down the stretch the rookie heads into the off season with a head of steam, tossing quality starts in three of his last four starts with an eye-popping 37:2 K:BB ratio in 27.2 innings. Syndergaard figures to be a key part of the impressive young Heroes rotation 2016 and beyond. Final line was 9 win,s 7 losses, 3.24era, 1.05whip, over 150 innings with 166k's. He also had 3-0 1.82 29inn 34k's in AAA this year as well.


Close vote this year for this award:
1. Noah Syndergaard
2. Colby Lewis
3. Yordano Ventura
4. Lance McCullers


Winners of this award:
2007 Roy Halladay 16-5 3.71era 225Inn 139K's
2008 Franciso Rodriguez 2-3 2.24era 68inn 77K's 62SV
2009 Roy Halladay 17-10 2.79era 246Inn 206K's
2010 Trevor Cahill 18-8 2.97 era 196.2Inn 118K's
2011 Ervin Santana 11-12 3.38 228.2inn 178k's
2012 Jim Johnson 4-2 2.49era 68.2Inn 41K's 51SV
2013 James Shields 13-9 3.15era 228Inn 197K's
2014 Yordano Ventura 14-10 3.20era 183Inn 159k's
2015 Noah Syndergaard 9-7 3.24era 150Inn 166K's