SUMMER 10
Green Top Summer Performer
Most of the college players being touted for the first
round of the 2009 draft are spending the summer with USA Baseball’s college
national team, which recently ran its record to 14-0 after defeating Cuba’s
Olympic team twice, including 4-1 in the championship game, on its way to a
perfect mark at Holland’s Haarlem Baseball Week.
The notable exception is Southern California shortstop
Grant Green, who is spending his second straight summer in the Cape Cod League.
Green’s batting average has hovered around the .400 mark most of the summer,
and he continued to lead the Cape League in runs (24) and hits (41).
Of all the non-Team USA players, Green has done more to
solidify his stock as a first-rounder this summer and appropriately ranks atop
PG Crosschecker’s Summer 10—a weekly ranking of the top performers (not
necessarily prospects) in the nation’s leading college summer leagues. Every
second week, we skip the talent on Team USA and concentrate only on players in
summer-league competition.
Catcher Carlos Ramirez, who will transfer from
Chandler-Gilbert (Ariz.) JC to Arizona State in the fall, continues to put up
impressive numbers in the Northwoods League, topping that league in average and
homers.
Here’s this week’s Summer 10 (all players are eligible
for the 2009 draft):
| Rank |
Player |
Position |
2009 School |
Summer Team |
League |
'08 Summer Stats |
| 1. |
Grant Green |
SS |
Southern California |
Chatham |
Cape Cod |
.398-3-10, 24 R, 41 H |
| 2. |
Carlos Ramirez |
C |
Arizona State |
Mankato |
Northwoods |
.356-9-35 |
| 3. |
A.J. Pollock |
OF |
Notre Dame |
Falmouth |
Cape Cod |
.384-2-11, 22 R |
| 4. |
Steve Ames |
RHP |
Gonzaga |
Wenatchee |
West Coast |
5-0, 0.50, 36 IP/12 H/7 BB/40 SO |
| 5. |
Adam Liberatore |
LHP |
Tennessee Tech |
Waynesboro |
Valley |
5-0, 0.81, 45 IP/24 H/10 BB/44 SO |
| 6. |
Nick Liles |
3B-OF |
Western Carolina |
Yarmouth-Dennis |
Cape Cod |
.400-0-18, 10 SB |
| 7. |
Derek McCallum |
2B |
Minnesota |
St. Cloud |
Northwoods |
.355-3-33, 54 H |
| 8. |
Kevin Mahoney |
3B |
Canisius |
Forest City |
Coastal Plain |
.331-10-45 |
| 9. |
Carson Andrew |
RHP |
Jacksonville |
Santa Barbara |
Cal Collegiate |
3-0, 0.68, 40 IP/21 H/8 BB/40 SO |
| 10. |
Christian Bergman |
RHP |
UC Irvine |
Anchorage Bucs |
Alaska |
3-1, 0.99, 46 IP/36 SO/3 BB/27 SO |
--COMPILED BY ALLAN SIMPSON