Moss Sees First Action

Benton Moss just newly signed minor league player for the Tampa Bay Rays went to the hill for the first time Monday night for his summer team the Hudson Valley Renegades.  He threw his first professional pitch out of the bullpen in the sixth inning of game four on the season. One inning he walked one and struck out one batter.

Hudson Valley is a team in the New York Penn League and the season just started last Friday. Playing their home opener after starting with three wins on the road  Moss took over in the sixth inning with his team ahead 1-0.  The next pitchers after Benton gave up six runs in their first loss.

Collins Cuthrell now more than a week into his professional baseball career playing for the Florence Ky Freedom is hitting 387 in his first eight games.  He has 12 hits in 31 at bats and a 387 average would be leading the league in hitting if he had enough at bats to qualify.   A player in the Frontier League needs to bat 2.7 times per game to have enough bats.  They have already played 32 games this season so Collins  would need to have batted almost 80 times.  He has hit a homer and driven in five RBI so far in his young professional career.

Brian Goodwin is on the upswing playing for the Harrisburg Pa Senators.  His low point this season his batting average had dipped to 206 but a hot streak his average is up to 240.  He has hit two home runs and with his speed now has three triples and nine doubles.
Brian started the season in AA coming off shoulder surgery which derailed his season in AAA Syracuse in July last year.  He is listed as the 13th top prospect in theWashington National organization.  If this hot streak continues Brian just might be heading back to Syracuse shortly.

Brian has a new teammate in Harrisburg in the name of Trea Turner former number one draft pick of the San Diego Padres who was acquired by Washington June 15th.  Sine he has been in Harrisburg he has played short stop and is hitting 313.

Finally Hobbs Johnson is now 4-4 pitching in Buloxi Ms.  His era is up to 3.68 and his sixty innings pitched he has walked 25 which is a high number for Hobbs. All during his high school days at Rocky Mount  and college at Carolina his walks per nine inning were under three.  Right now he is near five per nine innings and those extra men on base is keeping him at a five hundred pitcher.

Former Carolina pitcher Matt Harvey us making a nice comeback after having missed all of the 2014 season for the New York Mets after Tommy John surgery.  Harvey is 8-5 with an ERA of 3.18.  Harvey who has been known to toss the ball to the plate some times at 100 miles and hour has hit 100 since his co back.