5 Crosscutters named All Stars

3. Williamsport

Five Williamsport Crosscutters have been named to the New York Penn League All Star Team, in the game to be held next Tuesday in Staten Island, NY. Outfielder Miguel Alvarez, 2B Cesar Hernandez, P Eric Pettis, P Chase Johnson and Catcher Jeff Lanning were all named to the NL team (Note: Lanning was named as an injury replacement).

Both Johnson (21st round, 09) and Pettis (35th round, 10) were Phillies draft picks, while both Alvarez (2007) and Hernandez (2006) were signed as free agents.  Additionally, Lanning was signed as a free agent this season after being originally drafted by the Twins two years ago.

6 thoughts on “5 Crosscutters named All Stars”

  1. So is Pettis’ future with us as a starter or reliever? His numbers are actually better as a starter, but his past 7 outings have been as a reliever (closer potential?).

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  2. He got moved to the pen to reduce his workload. His future role is not to be judged by where he’s at now.

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  3. Chase Johnson is someone to keep an eye on, I don’t really know much about him. But he was a community college guy who has a big frame and presumably throws pretty hard. Hopefully he works out like De Fratus has to this point.

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  5. Attended this morning’s W’port game at Tri-City. Cutters won 5-2. I would love to have been able to make this a lead article like some other posters who attended games have done so more people could read it, but I either don’t know how or am not on the important list yet!
    Regardless, here are some of my observations and some things you won’t get from the boxscore:

    –Cesar Hernandez got the day off so Duran (SS) led off. Duran looked fine in the field making all routine plays. He one nice single, stole 2nd but then got picked off.
    –Miguel Alvarez had only one hit but hammered a line drive that was right at the second baseman in another AB.
    –Domingo Santana (who finally has reached the age of 18!) hit an absolute bomb well over the left field fence for a 2 run shot. He still struggles mightily against off speed stuff. Interesting that the HR came on a 3-0 pitch. He looked very smooth fielding balls in the OF. On one well hit ball he got turned around the wrong way, but recovered well and still caught the ball gracefully. He also did a nice job cutting off some balls in the right-center gap to hold players to singles. He has a strong arm but air-mailed a throw trying to nail a runner at the dish (it hit the screen on the fly).
    — Jeff Lanning hit line shots up the middle for singles his 1st two times up and drew a walk. He also showed his toughness as he got plowed into at home on a play at the plate. He took a hard shot but held the ball and walked off the field and stayed in the game. He has his average over .300 now.
    — Cameron Rupp did not hit well especially with men on base. He did hit one hard shot that was in and out of the SS’s glove (I think they gave him a hit- I know I did). I was more impressed with Rupp the last time I saw him about a month ago which was when he first starting hitting.
    — David Buchanan started and went the 1st six innings. He only allowed 1 ER in 6 IP. He was not overpowering and the Valley Cats hit some hard foul balls off him, but overall he mixed things up well and pitched out of minor jams successfully.
    –Juan Sosa followed with 2 excellent innings. He had 3 K’s and made the hittes lookf foolish on them.
    –Chase Johnson closed it out with a perfect 9th. He also looked very strong. The game ended on a half-wing K where he fooled the batter completely. Johnson was hitting 91 consistently. Unfortunately, I didn’t find the place where the MPH was displayed(hidden) in the RF wall until the 9th inning.
    –Kyrell Hudson looks pretty lost at the plate (good in CF though).
    –One thing I found very interesting was that before the game EVERY pitcher on the team was on the field throwing. I have seen a number of minor league games over the last 15-20 years and have never seen that (including 3 other W’port games this year). The pitchers had to have spent over 10 minutes playing catch with each other building up to long toss and then shortening up again. I am very curious as to why and if this is a Lance Carter (WP pitching coach) idea or a sudden organizational thing. Again, I have never seen any of our affiliates do this before.

    Hope everyone enjoyed the report and a decent # of people get to read it.

    NYPM

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