Sarasota Reds Team Leaders and Top hitting and pitching prospects

Sarasota Team Leaders

Offensive Leaders

Batting Average- Drew Anderson .300

On Base Percentage - Tonys Gutierrez .396

Slugging Percentage - Jay Garthwaite .478

Runs scored - Cody Strait 85

Doubles - Cody Strait 36

Triples - Drew Anderson 9

Home Runs - Jay Garthwaite 21

RBI - Jeremiah Piepkorn 79

Walks - Tonys Gutierrez 55

Stolen Bases - Cody Strait 50

Pitching Leaders

ERA (minimum 90ip) - Sam Lecure 3.43

Innings pitched - Sam Lecure 141.3

Wins - James Avery 8

Save - Abe Woody 12

Strikeouts - Sam Lecure 115

WHIP (minimum 90ip) - Sam Lecure 1.24

Top Hitting Prospect

Paul Janish - Drafted 5th round 2004 out of Rice University

2006 Season stats (Sarasota only)

Team	League	AVG	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	OBP	SLG	OPS
SAR	FSL	.278	91	335	53	93	17	2	9	55	38	39	8	2	.355	.421	.776

To be completely honest, I don't think there are any true hitting prospects on this team. Paul Janish, Drew Anderson and Cody Strait all have some sort of skill set that could get them to the majors, but no one is that can't miss type of guy. I went with Paul over the other two players for several reasons. First being his defense, which by all accounts is Major League Ready at a premium position like SS. Paul also had the second highest OPS of all shortstops in the Florida State League, and while he is 23 and it was just High-A it still was not a bad season for him. Paul also has a nice ability to make contact and take a walk which can be seen with his walk-to-strikeout ratio. Paul played the first month of the season in Dayton and the last few weeks of the season in Chattanooga, where he will probably return next season to begin. Next year will be a "make-or-break" year for Paul. The jump from High-A to AA is said to be one of the biggest jumps for players and if Paul continues to hit and play defense, we could see him in a Reds uniform someday.

Top Pitching Prospect

Johnny Cueto - Undrafted Free Agent signed out of the Dominican Republic in 2004

2006 Season stats (Sarasota only)

Team	League	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO
SAR	FSL	7	2	3.50	12	12	1	1	61.2	48	25	24	6	23	61

Johnny began the season as a relative unknown. He was so unknown in fact that Baseball America did not even list him as one of the Reds top 30 prospects in the preseason rankings. He began the season in Dayton as a 20 year old and he was so good he was promoted halfway though the season to Sarasota. At first Johnny struggled posting a 4.50 ERA thought his first 6 starts, however over the next 11 starts he posted an ERA of 2.96 to lower his season ERA in Sarasota to 3.50. Johnny posted good hits per inning numbers as well as strikeouts per inning numbers. I have a feeling that Johnny will start the season out in Chattanooga after performing well in Sarasota for the second half of the season, but if the team thinks he needs a little bit of work on something, you may see him return to Sarasota briefly next season to start out