The Journal of Christopher Quinn (2b, Pittsburgh Single-A)
SEPTEMBER 1, 2003
The minor league season ended today. We finished 76-54 in our 130-game schedule. Notables on the stat sheet included Larry Langhorne (OBP-6th, .431), Castor Gonzalez (HR-7th, 35; R-7th, 109) and the baby of the team, Julian Rios, leading the Single-A league in triples with 13. Pat White, Ryan Herndon and Jame Pankey hit the top tens in some pitching categories (Herndy led the league in wins with 14, and Pankey and Herndy were 1-2 in ERA at 3.34 and 3.46). Of course, to reach the top tens in minor league stats suggests that while you’re very good, you’re still not good enough to get out of the minor leagues. It’s a dubious distinction at best.
Up in the bigs, we still lead the NL Central by a game over St. Louis. We also have Philadelphia in the East and Colorado in the West to worry about if it comes to the Wild Card.
September call-ups began today. No one from A-ball got a call. Seven AAA players were called up, and two new pitchers were signed to minor-league deals, ostensibly for next year.
Our batting order on the last day of the season looked like this (with Single-A Avg.-HR-RBI-SB):
Code:
AVG HR RBI SB
Quinn, 2b .304 3 52 26
Henriquez, 1b .289 17 83 7
Martinez, c .296 18 64 6
Rios, lf .242 10 59 27
Gonzalez, 3b .289 35 76 21
Thompson, rf .315 11 42 7
Corpuz, ss .315 5 30 2
Hunt, dh .374 3 15 1
Landreneau, cf .220 1 17 5
My line at the end of the season was this:
Code:
YEAR TEAM GP AB H 2B 3B HR RBI R BB K SB CS AVG OBP SLG OPS
2003 PIT,A 130 510 155 37 4 3 52 54 26 78 26 10 .304 .339 .410 .749