Batter's Box would like to pass on our congratulations to three Blue Jays farmhands who won the Topps Player of the Month award for August in their respective leagues.
Alexis Rios, who was also named MVP of the Eastern League, was selected the Eastern League Player of the Month for August... Rios hit .410 during the stretch for the Ravens.
D.J. Hanson won the Player of the Month for the South Atlantic League in August. Hanson closed out the Sally campaign with a 2.54 ERA, after going 4-0 in 33.2 innings with a 40/6 K/W ratio and a 0.27 ERA in the last month of the season.
Finally, 2003 draftee "Nasty" Tom Mastny was named the NY-Penn League Player of the Month for August, topping off a perfect 8-0 regular season with a 4-0 August record and a 1.84 ERA.
A great finish to the season for all three players. Blue Jays won three awards in the six leagues they are entered in, and were the only team with more than two August awards. Only three pitchers won awards; the Jays had two of them. Good drafts by the late Ash and early Ricciardi regimes are starting to pay dividends.
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