Sox Pop on the Farm Podcast 55 — April Players of the Month!
Joe Resis joins Brett Ballantini to discuss our first round of monthly bests: Danny Mendick, Drew Thorpe, Eric Adler and Aldrin Batista
April is over, so it’s time for us to award, and talk about, our South Side Sox MiLB Players of the Month at each level. Joe Resis, writer of our story and deciding vote on the awards, occupies the expert’s chair as we summarize the April notables:
- An overview of the four affiliates, playing around .500 ball collectively and with one club (Birmingham) already pointed toward the postseason
- We spontaneously determined that 60 at-bats is enough to earn this award, so congratulations, Danny Mendick, you are Charlotte’s winner! Kudos to him, against all odds FORCING HIS WAY back onto the White Sox roster — leaving the team no other option, really
- Drew Thorpe wins a nail-biter in Birmingham, where any one of three starting pitchers could have earned the honors. We speculate a bit on possible call-up or MLB debut dates for Drew
- An award with an actual reward comes for Eric Adler, who was gem-perfect in Winston-Salem and got his call-up to Double-A at the end of the month
- In Kannapolis, it was more of a runaway choice, with Aldrin Batista crushing Low-A batters to earn April plaudits
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