Teheran, Terdoslavich named Braves minor leaguers of year
The Braves named Julio Teheran their minor league pitcher of the year for the second consecutive season and Lynchburg first baseman Joe Terdoslavich their minor league player of the year.
The Braves announced all their minor league award winners on Thursday and will honor them in a pre-game ceremony before Friday night’s game against the Mets. Many will be available to sign autographs at the Fan Plaza at Turner Field from 5:50 to 6:50 p.m. Friday.
Teheran was named both International League pitcher of the year and rookie of the year this season after going 15-3 with a 2.55 ERA in 25 games. He led the league in wins and tied for the league lead in ERA. He struck out 122 in 144 2/3 innings while walking 48. He held opponents’ to a .232 batting average.
Terdoslavich, a sixth-round round pick out of Cal State-Long Beach last year, broke a 65-year-old Carolina League record for doubles in a season with 52. The switch-hitting first baseman was third in the league in hitting with a .286 batting average and fifth in the Braves organization with 20 home runs, to go along with 82 RBIs.
To break the record in a league dominated by pitching impressed Lynchburg manager Luis Salazar all the more. Only one hitter in the Carolina League finished with a .300 average or better, and that was Lynchburg shortstop Andrelton Simmons, who hit .311.
“To hit 52 doubles in this league is amazing,” Salazar said. “I was very impressed with the way (Terdoslavich) handled it. He had a great season. He’s a gap-to-gap hitter. He has gap power from both sides of the plate – to me it’s equal vs. righty or lefty. He’s very much a line drive hitter.”
Other winners named at each minor league level for the Braves were (pitcher of the year, then player of the year):
Mike Minor and Stefan Gartrell in Triple-A Gwinnett, Randall Delgado and Tyler Pastornicky in Double-A Mississippi, Zeke Spruill and Andrelton Simmons at Single-A Lynchburg, Chasen Shreve and Evan Gattis at low Single-A Rome, J.R. Graham and Brandon Drury at rookie league Danville, Yean Carlos Gil and Felix Marte in the Gulf Coast League, and Oriel Caicedo and Jose Peraza in the Dominican Summer League.
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37 comments Add your comment
TennesseePaul
September 15th, 2011
2:55 pm
Good to see that Dirtbag put up some numbers!
South Georgia Dawg
September 15th, 2011
3:01 pm
Looks good for the Braves organization for several years to come.
Reid in EAV
September 15th, 2011
3:07 pm
Terdoslavich? Well, we’ve got our linguistic replacement for Jerod Saltalamacchia.
Heisenberg
September 15th, 2011
3:19 pm
Terdoslavich? Oh the nickname possibilities………………..Hope he has a thick skin
shadetree
September 15th, 2011
3:48 pm
The Terd will be big and talked about for years. I don’t ever really see him stinking it up and consider him to be a firm fielder
Phuch Le` Duc
September 15th, 2011
3:49 pm
(pronounced – foosh le duke) *I am my own linguist
Would you dig a little on Andrelton Simmons;
he is supposed to be a terrific fielder, [# 2 rated fldng ss in his draft]
with a superior arm,
now he hits 311 in a pitctcher’s league ?
Inquiring minds want to know ?
Phuch Le` Duc
September 15th, 2011
3:55 pm
(pronounced / foosh le duke)
pitctcher’s – “Ernest T. Bass” phonetic spelling.
*pitcher’s league / correctly spelled
jim
September 15th, 2011
3:57 pm
Can the Terd play other positions like LF or 3B. He looks to be blocked at 1B.
Mikey
September 15th, 2011
3:59 pm
can he play leftfield???
AZBravoFan
September 15th, 2011
4:08 pm
Phuch:
28 errors this year for Simmons.
Ted M
September 15th, 2011
4:16 pm
Is 23 kinda old for A-Ball?
shadetree
September 15th, 2011
4:41 pm
Hey Jim, a blocked Terd could cause some trouble.
JJ
September 15th, 2011
4:51 pm
DOB,Iwas wondering why Hicks,Young,Ramirez,and Gearrin have not been called up.With us playing so many extra inning games I thought they could be used?GO BRAVES
gcs
September 15th, 2011
5:01 pm
Any chance they move Terdoslavich to the outfield? It seems like Freddy Freeman has first base covered for the next decade or two.
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richbrave
September 15th, 2011
5:11 pm
Any BRAVES’ fans here read my minor’s reports this season, and recognize some names in this article?
SS AL SIMMONS and 1B JOE TERDOSLAVICH were thunder and lightning in the LYNCHBURG line-up this season. Congrats to all.
richbrave
September 15th, 2011
5:13 pm
That’s TER -dos-la-vic to you BRAVES faithful.
jayvee
September 15th, 2011
5:48 pm
Have you heard about the Terd? Everybody knows that the Terd is the word.
reckingball
September 15th, 2011
6:23 pm
Beevis and Butthead day, on this page today.
panamajack
September 15th, 2011
6:54 pm
Damm, can Terdoslavich play 3rd base?
Ronnie Mishap
September 15th, 2011
8:43 pm
Is his nick name turd sammich?
Web Masters
September 15th, 2011
8:45 pm
I’ll take the rapists for $500, Alex. That’s _therapists_ Let’s skip “Therapists” and try “Household Objects”, for $400.
Furman Bitcher
September 15th, 2011
10:00 pm
Oh hell we cant have a guy with a nickname ‘the turd” on our team. he better hit and never slump.
Ginny Batchelder
September 15th, 2011
10:27 pm
agree with everything except Pasternicky….Ernesto Mejia broke the records for hits, RBI’s and Home runs in AA……He earned uit!!!
Jay
September 15th, 2011
11:42 pm
Now we can say “Watch out Philly, we’re about to drop a Turd on you.”
Matt
September 15th, 2011
11:47 pm
looks like the Terd will be good trade bait in the future.
TeheranTime
September 16th, 2011
5:55 am
It’s funny I’ve never heard any talk about Terdoslavich. Where is he on the Braves prospect rankings?
Lemke's Knuckler
September 16th, 2011
8:13 am
The Terd had a rough time getting out of the shoot early on, but eventually came though and made a successful splash.
Dromio94
September 16th, 2011
9:33 am
Why do so many toiletheads have to show off their supreme intelligence and devastating wit on this blog, by bestowing insulting nicknames on young and upcoming baseball players? Is it some kind of tribal mania? Just pull the flush chain on yourselves, please, and leave baseball talk to real fans, OK? And may the offended young man stuff a bat up your posteriors, sideways preferably,
Lemke's Knuckler
September 16th, 2011
10:38 am
Interesting fact…Dromio94 is a Rock impersonator and wrestles on the weekends in high school gyms.
The Rock says take that bat, turn it sideways and shove right up your POSTERIOR !??
Doesn’t have the same ring without the candy ass.
Lemke's Knuckler
September 16th, 2011
10:40 am
Also Dromio94, I’m 1/32 Native American and find the “tribal mania” comment very insulting.
dwayne
September 16th, 2011
12:01 pm
Hey Homio69, lighten up
billmaier
September 16th, 2011
2:11 pm
yep theheran should takes lowes plaxce in the pitching rotatin now to day today today
TURD-O-METER
September 16th, 2011
2:51 pm
If he can play 3B can we please have a meter kinda like the one they had at Wrigley for Dunston? From Stopped up when he is slumping to Freeflowing when he is hot.
jch
September 16th, 2011
3:21 pm
Terdoslavich – so anybody here think they can come up with something he hasn’t heard before????
Doubtful but could be a cool contest if he reaches the bigs!
VaBravesfan
September 16th, 2011
3:52 pm
Terdo is his nickname in these parts. I saw him play quite a bit. I don’t know if he can play third but he is a slick first baseman. He kind of hits like Freeman, doesn’t pull much and can hit it a long way. Simmons made some errors but Lynchburg is a horrible stadium, rough infield and bad lights. He had 7 RBIS in a game in August. He can hit
Blobie
September 16th, 2011
6:13 pm
Looks like the Turd made a splash in Lynchburg. Does he spray it around or pull mostly? When he got on did he run? I heard he couldn’t go to his left, but went into the hole well.
Mitchell
September 16th, 2011
6:36 pm
Turdoslavich?
Turdoslavich?
Oh, I guess I’m not alone in my incredulity regarding the name of the Braves minor league star.
Should have probably assumed as much.