Minor League Baseball and the three Double-A leagues named their 2026 All-Star teams and award winnings. The Southern League, where the Cincinnati Reds affiliate Chattanooga Lookouts play, had two players named to the All-Star team. Outfielder Carlos Jorge and reliever Johnathan Lavallee were both named to the All-Star team.
For Carlos Jorge that was just his first of three stops in the 2026 season. He spent the first half with the Lookouts and in 59 games he hit .330/.402/.452 with 23 stolen bases. His average easily led the league at the time he was promoted to Triple-A. Jorge joined Louisville on June 30th and hit .263/.323/.377 for the Bats – missing a little more than three weeks of August with an injury before returning late in the month. Cincinnati called him up to join the big league club on September 4th and he’s spent the month with them ever since.
You can see the career stats for Carlos Jorge here.
Reliever Johnathan Lavallee was in his first season with the organization in 2026. He signed as a free agent with the Reds late in February and was assigned to Chattanooga out of spring training. In the first three months of the season he threw 33.2 innings for the Lookouts with a 2.94 ERA. He then moved up to Triple-A where he played with Louisville for six weeks before returning to Chattanooga for the final three weeks of the season. He allowed two runs in 9.2 innings during that time, lowering his ERA in the league to 2.70 in his 43.1 innings where he walked 10 batters, had seven saves, and struck out 56 batters in his 31 appearances.
You can see the career stats for Johnathan Lavallee here.
The Southern League only has eight teams, so it’s a little easier to make this specific All-Star team than a larger league. But there’s only one team, and only one player per position, plus a “utility man”. Only four starting pitchers and two relievers. So even in a league with eight teams there are only 16 All-Stars.
Carlos Jorge missed the batting title by 0.002 points. I thought that would have been cool, especially given how far his offensive numbers came in a year. I think Carlos probably thinks it is much more cool to be in the Major Leagues.
*Does the math on the paycheck in the minors versus in the big leagues*
Yeah, he definitely finds it a lot cooler in the Major Leagues (oh, and there’s the whole lifelong dream being accomplished thing, too)
MLB minimum is $780,000 this year. In the last three weeks Carlos has made about double what he would have made in the minors for this entire season.