Review Of Baseball Prospects

 Been noticing Brian Goodwin hasn't batted in the last couple of weeks.  Right now Brian has stalled batted at 219 and when you go to the news wires in baseball you worry that he might have been sent back to 2AA but I guess this is good news in that regard.  Brian has been on the 7 day injured list which is better news than being sent back down.  Don't know the extent of his injury though.

Hobbs Johnson is stuck on 9 wins for Brevard of the Florida State League.  No fault of his own by chance as his ERA has dropped back to 2.80 so he is not giving up runs just not getting and run support from his teammates.

Xavier Macklin batting averaged has dipped to 207 for Gateway City in Illinois.  He is tied for the team lead in home runs with 7.  Today's Telegram has a nice story on X man's year in his comeback after missing almost two years with injuries.

There are two former Rocky Mount high baseball players who have sons trying to move up the ladder in baseball.  Whit Merrifield the son of Bill Merrifield  who now lives in Clemmons has played 35 games at AAA Omaha  for the Kansas City Royals and is hitting 364.  I suspect Whit will be a September call up for KC.

John Wooten who's dad is Sonny Wooten who lives in Wayne County  is now playing for Hagerstown in the Washington National organization.  John who played at ECU and Eastern Wayne has had a tough month as he was hit in the face by a pitch and has been in rehab but despite that since returning to Hagerstown has a season batting average of 303.

I think you need to look at Saturday' News and Observer in the sports section as the Observer did an article on Marvin Jarmon Mr Greenville Rose Rampant.  I think it is one of the best articles ever written about someone I know.  I think you will really enjoy it.

This week I have been on line as much as possible while the Rocky Mount Nationals run in the State tournament in a Greenville.  I took time to read the history of Greenville little league and stumbled upon a very interesting fact.  We all know of Ron Vincent the legendary baseball coach at Rose high who has won almost 850 high school games and six state titles.  Did you know even before he was the baseball coach he lead Greenville to one of their many state titles in little league.