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
No comments:
Post a Comment