Clobbering Calhoun wins FFA for week ending 6/11/17

Phil Gurnee ♦ June 12, 2017 ♦ 10 Comments

Willie Calhoun needs to hit since that is his only tool and the hit tool was carving up the PCL last week. Calhoun went 11 for 34 with eleven RBI and three home runs to win the weekly Farm Factory Award for June 11th. The three home runs came in back to back to back games. One of the three home runs was part of a back to back to back by rehabbing Joc Pederson, trying to figure it out Scott Van Slyke, and Willie on June 9th in the first inning.  It was against the rehabbing Tyson Ross who showed he has some work to do before rejoining the Ranger rotation.

Calhoun has now hit thirteen home runs as a twenty-two year old in the PCL. No other player in the PCL who is 22 or younger has double digit home runs. 
Pacific Coast League Batting Leaders 22 or younger:

Name               Age Aff  PA 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO   BA  OBP  SLG   OPS
Franklin Barreto    21 OAK 261 10  4  8  32 11 83 .275 .312 .447  .758
Alex Verdugo*       21 LAD 232  9  3  2  29 26 24 .313 .392 .418  .810
Amed Rosario        21 NYM 277 14  4  6  43 15 44 .337 .379 .494  .873
Raul Mondesi        21 KCR 155 10  3  5  21 10 36 .314 .355 .536  .891
Cody Bellinger*     21 LAD  77  4  0  5  15  9 22 .343 .429 .627 1.055
Ronald Guzman*      22 TEX 253 11  2  5  30 20 40 .304 .368 .435  .802
Dominic Smith*      22 NYM 280 16  1  7  40 19 48 .315 .364 .465  .830
Franchy Cordero     22 SDP 190  5  7  7  23 15 59 .289 .349 .520  .869
 Willie Calhoun      22 LAD 241 12  3 13  33 16 28 .295 .340 .549  .889
Carson Kelly        22 STL 179 10  0  7  25 21 25 .301 .391 .500  .891
Ian Happ            22 CHC 116  6  0  9  25 11 27 .298 .362 .615  .977
Christian Arroyo    22 SFG  92  7  0  4  15  5 10 .417 .467 .643 1.110

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 6/12/2017.

Scott Barlow just beat out Wilmer Font for pitching the best game of the week. Barlow went six innings, gave up four hits, zero earned runs, walked two, and struck out seven.

Wilmer Font was just about identical. Font went six innings, gave up five hits, one earned run, zero walks, and seven strikeouts.  I don’t know what to make of the twenty-seven year old Font but he is certainly dominating the Pacific Coast league. A 13. 2 K9 rate as a starter has to get your attention. Combined with a microscopic walk rate, and you have a hell of a stat line.

Name               Age Lev Aff  ERA GS   IP  H ER BB SO BB9  SO9 SO/W
Wilmer Font         27 AAA LAD 3.74 12 65.0 54 27 13 95 1.8 13.2 7.31
Josh Staumont       23 AAA KCR 5.46 12 62.2 49 38 45 82 6.5 11.8 1.82
Anthony Banda*      23 AAA ARI 4.68 12 67.1 62 35 27 68 3.6  9.1 2.52
Justin Masterson    32 AAA LAD 3.43 11 65.2 51 25 27 64 3.7  8.8 2.37
Brandon Woodruff    24 AAA MIL 4.12 12 63.1 60 29 19 60 2.7  8.5 3.16
Ryan Carpenter*     26 AAA COL 5.65 10 63.2 77 40 15 59 2.1  8.3 3.93
Mike Mayers         25 AAA STL 4.29 12 65.0 78 31 25 55 3.5  7.6 2.20
Luke Farrell        26 AAA KCR 4.41 10 63.1 62 31 25 54 3.6  7.7 2.16
Daniel Gossett      24 AAA OAK 3.41 11 60.2 53 23 19 54 2.8  8.0 2.84
Joan Gregorio       25 AAA SFG 3.26 12 69.0 59 25 34 53 4.4  6.9 1.56

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 6/12/2017.

Errol Robinson was promoted from Great Lakes to Rancho. This removed one of the four shortstops from the Great Lakes roster, and Robinson was the oldest so I guess it makes sense. We are still seeing a merry-go-round in the Loon infield as Lux/Davis/Cruz all continue to take turns playing SS.

Oneil Cruz is really coming on and is hitting .378 over his last ten games.