Auburn Update

Monday, July 10 2006 @ 02:00 PM EDT

Contributed by: Pistol

The Doubledays sit at 8-11, 5th place in the Pinckney Division, but just 3 games back of the Muckdogs of Batavia.

In prior years Auburn would dominate the NY-Penn League led by a number of highly drafted college players.  This year, however, is a little bit different.  The Jays selected HS OF Travis Snider in the first round, had no 2nd or 3rd round picks, and have limited 4th round pick Brandon Magee's innings.  As a result Auburn isn't getting a powerhouse like they have in previous years.

Here's a look at the individual stats:

Player  POS  AB  HR  RBI  BB  SO  AVG  OBP  SLG  OPS 
Luke Hopkins 1B 19 67 8 2 17 15 17 0.269 0.398 0.463 0.860 4
Jonathan Diaz IF 18 54 15 0 7 9 7 0.315 0.448 0.370 0.818 3
Kelly Sweppenhiser 3B 12 32 6 0 1 3 6 0.281 0.415 0.313 0.727 3
Scott Campbell 2B 14 47 8 0 4 7 11 0.277 0.393 0.319 0.712 2
Brian Hall 2B 15 60 9 1 6 2 7 0.267 0.290 0.383 0.674 5
Adam Calderone OF 18 73 10 1 10 3 18 0.247 0.269 0.397 0.666 2
Zachary Kalter OF 13 32 6 0 1 9 6 0.250 0.415 0.250 0.665 1
Matthew Liuzza C 10 29 7 0 5 6 7 0.207 0.378 0.241 0.620 0
Benjamin Zeskind OF 15 58 6 0 7 4 18 0.224 0.274 0.328 0.602 1
Matthew Lane C 15 52 5 1 5 2 12 0.173 0.228 0.346 0.574 1
Shawn Scobee OF 15 45 4 0 4 5 16 0.178 0.288 0.267 0.555 3
Jonathan Baksh OF 9 32 3 0 4 0 5 0.219 0.219 0.281 0.500 0

Luke Hopkins, the Jays 5th round pick this season, leads the offense with 2 HRs and 17 RBIs in the team's first 19 games.  His OPS is a team leading .860 and is 10th in the league.

Canadian Jonathan Baksh (7th round, 2006) is off to a slow start with just a .500 OPS.

 
Player  ERA  GS  IP  ER  HR  BB  SO  WHIP 
Hector Delgadillo 2 0 2.70 4 4 20 12 7 6 1 3 16 0.75
Shane Benson 1 1 4.80 3 3 15 20 9 8 1 1 8 1.40
Brian Bull 1 1 6.00 4 3 12 16 13 8 1 3 7 1.58
Daniel O'Brien 0 3 10.64 4 3 11 16 14 13 1 5 8 1.91
Ronald Lowe 0 1 7.50 5 2 12 15 11 10 0 4 10 1.58
Casey McKenzie 1 0 1.64 2 2 11 9 2 2 0 0 9 0.82
Wilfreddy Aguirre 0 0 1.59 1 1 5.2 5 1 1 0 0 2 0.88
Brandon Magee 0 0 4.50 1 1 2 3 1 1 0 1 2 2.00
Seth Overbey 0 1 2.38 6 0 11 7 4 3 0 0 7 0.62
Scott Byrnes 0 0 1.64 6 0 11 8 4 2 0 2 10 0.91
Gabriel Alfaro 0 1 2.89 6 0 9.1 11 6 3 1 1 8 1.29
Benjamin Harrison 0 0 0.00 6 0 8.1 8 4 0 0 0 8 0.96
Ted Serro 1 0 0.00 2 0 6.2 2 0 0 0 0 5 0.30
Edward Rodriguez 0 0 0.00 3 0 6 3 0 0 0 1 6 0.67
Zachary Dials 0 0 0.00 4 0 6 3 2 0 0 0 4 0.50
John Tritz 0 3 11.12 5 0 5.2 10 12 7 1 3 4 2.29
Javier Nieves 0 0 3.18 5 0 5.2 5 2 2 0 4 4 1.59

Delgadillo leads the Doubleday pitching staff.  The Jays 36th round choice in the 2005 draft has quality numbers over his first four starts.  Dan O'Brien, the team's 8th round choice this year, has struggled out of the gate with an ERA over 10 in three starts and 11 innings.  Brandon Magee got his first action of the season this past weekend giving up one run in two innings.

The bullpen has been the team's strength as the combination of Overbey, Byrnes, Alfaro, Harrison, Serro, Rodriquez, Dials, and Nieves have posted a combined 1.43 ERA over 63 innings.

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