The Single A South Atlantic League announced its All-Star Game rosters Monday and former Bradley Baseball star Dan Brewer landed on the Southern Division squad as the designated hitter. The South Atlantic League All-Star Game will be played June 23 at Appalachian Power Park in West Virginia.
Brewer is one of five players from the Southern Division leading Charleston RiverDogs (NY Yankees) to earn an All-Star spot, following a vote of the SAL managers. Brewer also will be joined on the Southern Division All-Star roster by Asheville (N.C.) Tourists pitcher Christian Friedrich, who was an All-American hurler at Eastern Kentucky for current Bradley head coach Elvis Dominguez.
An eighth-round pick by the Yankees in the 2008 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, Brewer currently ranks as the third-leading hitter in the SAL with a .325 batting average and he has reached safely by a hit or a walk in 10 consecutive games. Brewer also ranks second in the league with a .420 on-base percentage and sixth with a .876 OPS (on-base percentage, plus slugging percentage).
Elsewhere on the minor league circuit, former Bradley middle infielder Ryan Curry is batting .273 for the Jupiter Hammerheads (Florida Marlins) in the Advanced A Florida State League. He doubled in the first game of a Monday doubleheader versus the Daytona Cubs and is now tied for 10th in the FSL with 12 two-baggers, despite 43 fewer at-bats than any other player in the top 10.
Former Bradley catcher Ryan Eigsti is batting .242 in 42 games for the Wilmington (Del.) Blue Rocks, the Kansas City Royals affiliate in the Class A Carolina League. He is batting .267 so far in June and in his last 12 games behind the plate, Eigsti has thrown out 6-of-10 runners trying to steal while adding a pickoff.
At Double A New Hampshire (Toronto Blue Jays), former Bradley pitcher Brandon Magee evened his overall record at 5-5 by earning the victory in Sunday's 4-2 home win versus Reading. Magee allowed the two earned runs on seven hits in his 6.0 innings of work as the starting pitcher. Magee is now 3-3 in his eight appearances for the Fisher Cats and spots a 4.78 earned run average at the Double A level this season.
And at the Major League level, Tampa Bay left-handed reliever Brian Shouse remains on the 15-day disabled list, but is due to return to action soon. Shouse was placed on the DL with a strained left elbow May 25 and Tampa Bay expects him to return in mid-June. In 19 appearances for the defending American League champs, Shouse is 1-1 with a 3.77 ERA.
