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2008: Ranked the #18 prospect in the Cardinals organization
by scout.com...ranked the #9 Cardinals prospect by minorleagueball.com
on January 11...wore number 28 with the Palm Beach Cardinals
(Florida State, A+)...got his 100th career strikeout on April
28...named the St. Louis Cardinals Minor League Pitcher of the
Month for April...promoted to the Springfield Cardinals (Texas,
AA) on May 4...wore number 27 with Springfield.
2007: Signing was announced on June 20...wore number
22 with the Batavia Muckdogs (New York-Penn, short-season A)...got
the win in his first professional game on June 20 (4.0, 0 runs,
5 strikeouts)...named the New York-Penn League Pitcher of the
Week for the week of July 23-29 (2-0, 1.13 ERA, 8.0 ip, 6 h,
1 r, 2 bb, 15 k)...named to the New York-Penn League's midseason
All-Star game for the National League-affiliated team on August
9...had two blown saves with Batavia...Hogs in the Minors Player
of the Week three times...ranked #13 on Baseball America's New
York-Penn League Top 20 Prospects List on September 26...went
0-1 with a 0.90 ERA, one earned run, one hit, zero walks and
15 strikeouts in 10.0 innings for the Cardinals instructional
league...named in the Best Fastball and Best Secondary Pitch
sections in Baseball America's 2007 St. Louis Cardinals Draft
Report Card...named the Starting Pitcher of the Year for Batavia
by scout.com.
College: At Navarro College from 2005-06...at
Arkansas in 2007...earned national player of the week honors
after he set an Arkansas and SEC Tournament record with 17
strikeouts in eight innings on May 24...second team All-American
in 2007...wore number 28 at Arkansas.
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