A second straight month of co-winners! Congratulations go out to Scott Copeland, Franklin Barreto and Rowdy Tellez for winning the last monthly installments of the Batter's Box Minor League awards. 
Scott Copeland won Pitcher of the Month honours for August/September by earning four first-star
selections to give him 20 points. Franklin Barreto and Rowdy Tellez earned 14 points
apiece to share the Hitter of the Month hardware with two first-star selections as well as a second and a third. The 3 Stars voting by the Batter's Box Minor League Crew is done on a 5-3-1 points system.
Scott Copeland compiled a 5-2 record with a 1.96 earned run average with New Hampshire and Buffalo in August and September. The 26 year-old native of White Oak, Texas put together six quality starts (six innings, three earned runs or less) out of his seven starts. The 6-3, 200 pound righthander did not give up a run in his first two starts with the Bisons by spinning a pair of seven shutout inning efforts August 11 and 16 and allowed just one run over seven innings in his final start of the year on September 1 to earn his third win with the Herd. He pitched 46 innings with a 30-15 strikeout/walk ratio, zero home runs allowed and a .234 opponents batting average.
Franklin Barreto put together a batting line of .324/.381/.519 for Vancouver in August with nine doubles, four home runs and 25 runs batted in. The 18 year-old Venezuelan also swiped 15 bases in 17 attempts. He started August with a two-home run game on August 2 and was 11-for-15 in his first three contests. The 5-9, 174 pound right-handed hitter also recorded 11 multi-hit efforts that included a four-hit game August 7. He also had a hit in all four post-season games for the C's, batting .278 as Vancouver fell to Hilsboro in the Northwest League final.
Rowdy Tellez began August with a four-hit game and went 9-for-15 with two home runs in his first three games of the month with Bluefield. The 19 year-old left-handed hitter earned a promotion to Lansing and had a seven-game hitting streak. Overall, he had 10 multi-hit games and posted a slash line of .380/.454/.598 with three doubles, one triple, five homers and 24 RBI. The 6-4, 220 pound slugger finished off September by joining the Vancouver Canadians for their playoff run in which he went 1-for-11. He was robbed of a second hit in his final playoff at-bat when he drove one to the warning track in deep center field in Hillsboro with the tying and winning runs on base.
In the monthly points race, Copeland beat out Daniel Norris, Kendall Graveman, Jairo Labourt and Ryan Borucki who finished with 15, 13, 11 and 10 points respectively. Barreto and Tellez were five points clear of L.B. Dantzler and six ahead of Brett Wallace, Marcus Knecht and Lydell Moseby.
Stay tuned for the Batter's Box Minor League Hitter and Pitcher of the Year announcement which will come your way later this week.
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