Taylor Trammell went 1-3 with 2 walks, a steal and a run scored in a Dayton Dragons win on Monday night. The stolen base for the Cincinnati Reds prospect was his 40th of the season. He joined teammate Jose Siri in the 40 stolen base club. The two players are the first to reach 40 steals in the Reds farm system since 2013 when Billy Hamilton (75), Junior Arias (60) and Beau Amaral (40) all reached the mark.
The month of August has been the best of the season for Taylor Trammell. In 26 games played for Dayton, the outfielder is hitting .304/.425/.533 with 20 walks and 20 strikeouts. That’s come along with four doubles, a triple, five home runs and 11 steals. It’s pushed his season line to .282/.370/.455 through 125 games.
Adam Brett Walker walks it off
The Louisville Bats played a double header on Monday. They lost the first game 7-1. The second game, though, was tied at 3-3 after seven innings and went into extra innings. In the top of the 8th inning he took a hanging breaking ball and destroyed it. The ball was 108 MPH off of the bat and went over 400 feet for a walk-off home run.
Adam Brett Walker is well known for his power. He’s hit 139 minor league home runs in 656 career minor league games. This season, split over five teams and several organizations, he’s hit 15 home runs in 72 games.
Miguel Hernandez has stopped striking out
There was something that happened to Joey Votto last year around the All-Star break. As Fangraphs noted earlier this year, Joey Votto simply stopped striking out and in the time since that article was published, he has continued not striking out.
Miguel Hernandez didn’t exactly have a high strikeout rate this season when he was playing for the Dominican Summer League Reds from in June and July. In 167 plate appearances he had 24 strikeouts. That’s a strikeout rate of 14.3% – which is quite good. He was promoted to the Arizona League Reds for the final week of July. In 11 games played and 47 plate appearances over the first two weeks with the Reds he struck out 10 times. That’s 21.2%, a big increase over what he had done in the DSL.
In the three weeks since that point, Miguel Hernandez has gone full Joey Votto and then some, at least when it comes to the strikeouts. The 18-year-old has played 16 games and had 75 plate appearances for the Arizona League Reds and has four strikeouts in that span. That’s a 5.3% strikeout rate. He’s got more extra-base hits, six, than strikeouts in that stretch of games. He’s hitting .361 in that time frame and slugging .500.