At this point in the Summer, minor league baseball is in full swing. The full-season leagues are coming off their All-Star breaks and the short-season leagues are settling into the daily baseball grind.
The Orioles’ farm system contains seven teams, ranging from the Triple-A Norfolk Tides to the short-season DSL Orioles (Dominican Summer League). Today we’ll look at which players have had standout seasons, comparing each club’s individual leaders.
For hitting statistics such as batting average and on-base percentage, there will be a 200 plate appearance minimum on a full-season team to qualify, or a 90 plate appearance minimum on a short season team. For pitchers’ ERA, 0.2 IP per team game played is required to qualify. Many players jump levels throughout the season, so these minimums are slightly adjusted from normal major league leaderboard minimums. All statistics are for July 21st, before tonight’s games have been played.
Batting Average (Minimum 200 PA for full-season, 90 PA for short-season)
- Norfolk (AAA): Ryan Adams (.283)
- Bowie (AA): Greg Miclat (.273)
- Frederick (High A): Tyler Townsend (.318)
- Delmarva (Low A): Jonathan Schoop (.316)
- Aberdeen (SS-A): Joe Velleggia (.313)
- GCL Orioles (SS-R): Jerome Pena (.272)
- DSL Orioles (SS-R): Alexander Mercedes (.325)
- Norfolk: Josh Bell, 16
- Bowie: Brandon Waring, 12
- Frederick: Tyler Townsend, 13
- Delmarva: Jonathan Schoop, 8
- Aberdeen: Joe Velleggia, 5
- GCL Orioles: Roderick Bernardina, 3
- DSL Orioles: Hector Veloz, Alexander Mercedes, Oswill Lartiguez, and Felix Bido (all tied with 1)
- Norfolk: Brandon Snyder, 48
- Bowie: Pedro Florimon and Robbie Widlansky, 45
- Frederick: Tyler Townsend, 50
- Delmarva: Mike Flacco, 41
- Aberdeen: Joe Velleggia, 18
- GCL Orioles: Roderick Bernadina, 14
- DSL Orioles: Hector Veloz, 21
- Norfolk: Matt Angle, 20
- Bowie: Greg Miclat, 32
- Frederick: Dale Mollenhauer, 21
- Delmarva: Trent Mummey, 12
- Aberdeen: Glynn Davis, 12
- GCL Orioles: Gregory Lorenzo, 5
- DSL Orioles: Alexander Mercedes, 15
Extra-Base Hits
- Norfolk: Rhyne Hughes, 33
- Bowie: Robbie Widlansky and Ronnie Welty, 28
- Frederick: Tyler Townsend, 38
- Delmarva: Mike Flacco, 27
- Aberdeen: Joe Velleggia, 11
- GCL Orioles: Roderick Bernadina, 13
- DSL Orioles: Hector Veloz, 15
- Norfolk: Ryan Adams (.346)
- Bowie: Caleb Joseph (.353)
- Frederick: Steven Bumbry (.379)
- Delmarva: Tyler Kelly (.377)
- Aberdeen: Joe Velleggia (.400)
- GCL Orioles: Roderick Bernadina (.362)
- DSL Orioles: Alexander Mercedes (.425)
- Norfolk: Rick VandenHurk, 5
- Bowie: Tim Bascom, 6
- Frederick: Nathan Moreau, 10
- Delmarva: Scott Copeland, Luis Noel, Jacob Pettit (all tied with 5)
- Aberdeen: Parker Bridwell, 2
- GCL Orioles: Miguel Chalas, Cameron Coffey, Jaime Esquivel, Jorge Rivera (all tied with 2)
- DSL Orioles: Samuel Jean, 6
- Norfolk: Rick VandenHurk, 110.2 IP
- Bowie: Zach Clark, 98.1 IP
- Frederick: Bobby Bundy, 107.0 IP
- Delmarva: Scott Copeland, 97.0 IP
- Aberdeen: Jake Cowan, 36.1 IP
- GCL Orioles: Sebastian Vader, 24.2 IP
- DSL Orioles: Samuel Jean, 62.0 IP
Earned Run Average (0.2 IP per team game played)
- Norfolk: Chris George (4.61)
- Bowie: Tim Bascom (2.92)
- Frederick: Oliver Drake (2.14)
- Delmarva: Jarret Martin (4.35)
- Aberdeen: David Baker (2.45)
- GCL Orioles: Jaime Esquivel (0.45)
- DSL Orioles: Domingo Salas (1.22)
- Norfolk: Rick VandenHurk, 63
- Bowie: Zach Clark, 64
- Frederick: Bobby Bundy, 91
- Delmarva: Luis Noel, 70
- Aberdeen: Jake Cowan, 37
- GCL Orioles: Eduardo Rodriguez, 25
- DSL Orioles: Samuel Jean, 50
- Norfolk: Mark Worrell, 12
- Bowie: Jose Diaz, 17
- Frederick: Sean Gleason, 26
- Delmarva: David Walters, 21
- Aberdeen: Angel Cespedes and Jose Mota, 2
- GCL Orioles: Seven players tied at 1
- DSL Orioles: Domingo Salas and Jose Figuereo, 4
@ Edgar,,,,,,,you have hit on the secondary reason the O’s are a terrible organization,,,,,,,,,,,,Angelos being the primary reason,,,,,,,,,nice job with these stats it show what a lousy job the lessor known people in this pitiful organization are doing , where does the big league team go for help , the answer is nowhere……………it is no wonder this team sucks , no minor league players ready willing and able and a major league team loaded with bats bought at K-mart………what a joke……….
good job Edgar………
Spy,
I do agree partially. While I was getting these stats together, I was amazed at how poor these guys were performing compared to the rest of the minors. However, for the stats with the minimum PA or IP requirement, there’s a whole number of guys who were fairly close to the minimum but not quite there because they jumped a level or two. I think in a month or two these stats will look quite a bit better.
Thanks for your comment, always appreciated.
-E
@ Edgar,,,,,,,I sure hope you are right , the O’s are going to need all the help they can get,,,,,,,,,,,I comment plenty about them on several different blogs but I’m truly amazed at the total lack of interest by some of my friends who used to live and die with the O’s,,,,,,,,,I used to as well , I was a season ticket holder for several years , you wouldn’t know it now . Funny how one man can do so much damage………….