With the first month of the season in the books, Baseball America looked back at the April throughout the minor leagues and and created an all performance “prospect team” based on how April turned out. The Cincinnati Reds landed one player on the team with outfielder Phillip Ervin.
Ervin is coming off of a month in the Florida State League where he hit .347/.425/.667 with 11 walks, 15 strikeouts, five steals and 13 extra-base hits. Here is what they had to say over the weekend:
After scuffling through a rough full-season debut last year, Ervin started strong at Daytona and turned in the most productive April of any position player in the Florida State League. The 2013 first-rounder led the circuit in home runs (six), slugging (.667), extra-base hits (12) and runs (21).
One thing of note is that Ervin completed a game that was suspended on April 11th on May 1st. The stats from that game count for April and he hit a walk-off home run, which technically gives him seven homers in the month. Just keep that in mind if you notice the stats in the quote versus the ones in his splits that are listed elsewhere, this article was posted the day of the resumption of the game and hadn’t happened yet.