Myrtle Beach Pelicans week in review (July 9, 2016)

Shortstop Gleyber Torres – the Chicago Cubs’ No. 1 prospect, according to Baseball America and MLBPipeline.com – had a sucessful week with a .304 average, five RBIs and three runs scored in five games. JASON LEE jlee@thesunnews.com

Although they swept a doubleheader against Winston-Salem on Wednesday, the Myrtle Beach Pelicans finished the week with a 3-4 record.

Despite a shaky outing in last Saturday’s 11-9 victory over Potomac, starter Jake Stinnett picked up his seventh win and is now tied for seventh in the Carolina League in wins.

Starter Erick Leal remains the Carolina League leader in wins (10) and despite a quality start, Leal received the loss as he looked to extend his lead in the category during Friday’s 1-0 loss to Wilmington.

Pelicans slugger Yasiel Balaguert remains fourth in the Carolina League in home runs with 11, and just barely dropped out of the top 5 in RBIs as he’s now sixth with 50 runs batted in.

Shortstop Gleyber Torres – the Chicago Cubs’ No. 1 prospect, according to Baseball America and MLBPipeline.com – had a sucessful week with a .304 average, five RBIs and three runs scored in five games. Torres racked up a season-high four hits in Thursday’s 13-9 loss to Wilmington.

Outfielder Charcer Burks reached base safely in each game, finishing with a .344 on-base percentage during the week.

Last week’s results

Saturday, July 2: MB 11, Potomac 9 Sunday: Potomac 5, MB 3 Monday: Win-Salem 8, MB 0 Tuesday: Ppd., rain Wednesday: MB 8-5, Win-Salem 3-3 Thursday: Win-Salem 13, MB 9 Friday: Wilmington 1, MB 0.

Success at the beach

Catcher Ian Rice has played 15 games in a Myrtle Beach Pelicans uniform and has a .288/.413/.596 slash line with four homers, eight RBIs and 11 runs scored in that span.

Best stat

The Pelicans stole eight bases and were caught stealing just once in seven games.

Star player

Outfielder Rashad Crawford, who batted .308 with two doubles, five RBIs and four runs scored, and had a .438 on-base percentage in seven games.

Myrtle Beach statistics

Hitting

Player	POS	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	TB	BB	SO	SB	CS	OBP	SLG	AVG	OPS	E
Ian Happ	2B	69	240	37	71	16	3	7	42	114	48	69	10	3	.410	.475	.296	.885	7
Ian Rice	C	15	52	11	15	4	0	4	8	31	10	16	1	0	.413	.596	.288	1.009	2
David Bote	3B	22	74	9	21	7	0	1	8	31	4	13	1	0	.321	.419	.284	.739	3
Jason Vosler	SS	84	293	30	78	23	2	2	33	111	31	45	1	2	.341	.379	.266	.720	11
Gleyber Torres	SS	82	306	49	81	16	2	9	33	128	34	75	13	7	.346	.418	.265	.764	15
Gioskar Amaya	C	44	143	15	35	9	1	5	17	61	20	36	4	1	.335	.427	.245	.762	5
Daniel Lockhart	2B	37	119	16	29	6	3	1	12	44	8	24	6	1	.290	.370	.244	.660	3
Rashad Crawford	CF	72	280	38	67	17	6	2	23	102	29	62	15	6	.313	.364	.239	.677	2
Trey Martin	LF	29	90	10	21	3	0	0	12	24	11	30	2	1	.308	.267	.233	.574	0
Charcer Burks	CF	75	241	35	56	14	2	6	18	92	38	59	16	4	.353	.382	.232	.735	4
Erick Castillo	C	16	53	4	12	1	0	0	2	13	3	8	0	0	.281	.245	.226	.526	1
Yasiel Balaguert	1B	85	317	32	71	7	0	11	50	111	29	80	3	1	.289	.350	.224	.640	6
Jeffrey Baez	RF	64	208	20	46	7	1	3	21	64	23	49	23	6	.306	.308	.221	.614	3
Shawon Dunston Jr.	LF	37	114	11	25	6	4	0	5	39	11	31	7	1	.299	.342	.219	.641	0
Andrew Ely	2B	16	51	1	10	2	0	0	5	12	4	13	2	0	.250	.235	.196	.485	4
Cael Brockmeyer	C	24	79	9	15	2	0	4	12	29	10	19	2	0	.293	.367	.190	.661	0
Daniel Spingola	OF	18	54	9	10	3	0	0	4	13	4	15	0	1	.246	.241	.185	.487	1
Tyler Pearson	C	3	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	.200	.000	.000	.200	0
Player	POS	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	TB	BB	SO	SB	CS	OBP	SLG	AVG	OPS	E
Ian Happ	2B	69	240	37	71	16	3	7	42	114	48	69	10	3	.410	.475	.296	.885	7
Ian Rice	C	15	52	11	15	4	0	4	8	31	10	16	1	0	.413	.596	.288	1.009	2

Pitching

Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	HB	BB	SO	WHIP	HLD	GF
Jonathan Martinez	5	5	4.31	15	15	1	0	0	87.2	82	43	42	8	3	28	48	1.25	0	0
Zach Hedges	6	7	2.98	14	14	1	0	0	84.2	81	41	28	3	2	16	53	1.15	0	0
Erick Leal	10	4	2.99	15	15	0	0	0	81.1	74	33	27	5	3	17	57	1.12	0	0
Jake Stinnett	7	3	3.81	13	13	0	0	0	78.0	68	39	33	3	4	25	65	1.19	0	0
Trevor Clifton	4	6	3.12	15	15	0	0	0	69.1	63	29	24	3	2	32	77	1.37	0	0
Jeremy Null	2	4	4.73	11	10	0	0	0	53.1	69	32	28	5	2	10	35	1.48	1	0
Tommy Thorpe	3	4	4.07	22	4	0	0	1	48.2	50	22	22	6	0	18	42	1.40	5	8
Daury Torrez	1	1	4.14	24	0	0	0	1	37.0	48	22	17	5	0	9	30	1.54	3	10
James Pugliese	1	3	4.19	15	0	0	0	0	34.1	33	18	16	2	4	14	31	1.37	1	1
Jordan Minch	0	2	2.91	28	0	0	0	2	34.0	34	12	11	0	1	17	25	1.50	6	14
Ryan McNeil	0	1	2.61	25	0	0	0	11	31.0	27	9	9	2	0	12	31	1.26	4	15
James Farris	1	2	2.40	17	0	0	0	8	30.0	21	8	8	0	0	7	36	0.93	0	13
Jose Rosario	1	0	1.65	12	0	0	0	5	16.1	15	3	3	0	0	8	14	1.41	1	8
David Berg	2	0	1.42	9	0	0	0	4	12.2	10	4	2	0	1	1	10	0.87	0	8
Michael Wagner	0	0	3.68	3	0	0	0	0	7.1	5	3	3	0	0	1	8	0.82	1	0
Dillon Maples	0	1	7.71	9	0	0	0	0	7.0	9	7	6	0	2	7	6	2.29	1	2
Tyler Ihrig	0	0	0.00	3	0	0	0	0	6.2	1	1	0	0	0	4	4	0.75	1	1
Pedro Araujo	0	0	0.00	3	0	0	0	0	5.2	4	1	0	0	0	2	5	1.06	0	2
Daniel Lewis	0	0	13.50	5	0	0	0	0	5.1	8	8	8	0	1	4	3	2.25	0	2
Craig Brooks	0	0	21.60	1	0	0	0	0	1.2	6	4	4	0	0	1	1	4.20	0	0
Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	HB	BB	SO	WHIP	HLD	GF
Jonathan Martinez	5	5	4.31	15	15	1	0	0	87.2	82	43	42	8	3	28	48	1.25	0	0
Zach Hedges	6	7	2.98	14	14	1	0	0	84.2	81	41	28	3	2	16	53	1.15	0	0
Erick Leal	10	4	2.99	15	15	0	0	0	81.1	74	33	27	5	3	17	57	1.12	0	0

Carolina League Leaders

Average
Joey Meneses,	Carolina:	.342
Nick Basto,	Win-Salem:	.316
Mason Robbins,	Win-Salem:	.309
Yoan Moncada,	Salem:	.307
Maurico Dubon,	Salem:	.306

Home runs
Bobby Bradley,	Lynchburg:	15
Aderlin Rodriguez,	Frederick:	14
Conor Bierfeldt,	Frederick:	13
Yasiel Balaguert,	Pelicans:	11
Drew Ward,	Potomac:	11

RBIs
Bobby Bradley,	Lynchburg:	61
Yu-Cheng Chang,	Lynchburg:	58
Anthony Santander,	Lynchburg:	57
Aderlin Rodriguez,	Frederick:	54
Jose Marmolejos,	Potomac:	51

Wins
Erick Leal,	Pelicans:	10
Sean Brady,	Lynchburg:	8
Matthew Grimes,	Frederick:	8
Julian Merryweather,	Lynchburg:	8
Boone Whiting,	Potomac:	8

ERA
Matthew Grimes,	Frederick:	1.45
Zach Hedges,	Pelicans:	2.98
Erick Leal,	Pelicans:	2.99
Jalen Beeks,	Salem:	3.07
Trevor Clifton,	Pelicans:	3.12

Strikeouts
Matt Cooper,	Win-Salem:	95
Max Povse,	Carolina:	91
Josh Staumont,	Wilmington:	90
Jordan Stephens,	Win-Salem:	86
Mitch Brown,	Lynchburg:	83

This story was originally published July 9, 2016 at 8:41 PM with the headline "Myrtle Beach Pelicans week in review (July 9, 2016)."