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VEEN, GUARATE NAMED PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

San Jose OF Zac Veen and  Lake Elsinore RHP Carlos Guarate have been named Low-A West Player and Pitcher of the week for July 12-18.

ZAC VEEN – The Colorado Rockies’ top prospect hit safely in all five games he played against Stockton last week, going 12-for-18 and reaching base safely in 15 straight plate appearances. Veen hit five home runs over the week and in July he is slashing .333/.433/.754.

 

CARLOS GUARATE – Guarate came out of the bullpen on Wednesday and threw six shutout innings against Visalia. The 20-year old right hander didn’t allow a hit or a walk while striking out 6. Yesterday, Guarate was promoted to High-A Fort Wayne.

LUCIANO, MURPHY NAMED PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

San Jose SS Marco Luciano and teammate RHP Ryan Murphy have been honored as Low-A West Player and Pitcher of the Week for June 28 – July 4.

MARCO LUCIANO – The top prospect in the Giants organization went 6-for-19 against Stockton last week with a double, four homers and nine RBIs. The 19-year old had a huge night in the opener against the Ports, going  3-for-5 with a double and two home runs. For the year Luciano is slashing .274/.371/.574.

RYAN MURPHY – The San Jose righty shutout the Stockton Ports for seven innings on Saturday, allowing just one hit and one walk with 12 strikeouts. In his longest outing of the season, Murphy threw 92 pitches, 68 for strikes.

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: GIANTS’ POMARES, 66ERS’ SALVADOR

San Jose OF Jairo Pomares and Inland Empire LHP Jose Salvador have been honored as Low-A West Player and Pitcher of the Week for the period of June 21-27.

JAIRO POMARES – The San Francisco Giants’ #19 prospect went 9-for-20 against Rancho Cucamonga with four doubles and a homer. Pomares went 4-for-5 on Wednesday night with two doubles and two RBIs. In 10 games with San Jose, Pomares is hitting .317/.391/.659.

JOSE SALVADOR – Lefty Salvador went seven innings against Stockton on Friday night, shutting out the Ports on five hits and no walks with 11 strikeouts. The 94-pitch effort helped the 66ers won the game 1-0.

QUAKES’ MCWILLIAMS, GIANTS’ HARRISON NAMED PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

Rancho Cucamonga OF Sam McWilliams and San Jose LHP Kyle Harrison have been honored as Low-A West Player and Pitcher of the Week for June 14 – 20.

SAM MCWILLIAMS – A 9-for-26 week at the plate earned McWilliams honors for  last week as the Quakes won four of six games against Visalia. He started with a four-hit game in a 10-2 win on Tuesday and finished with a three hits and a walk on Sunday as Rancho posted 24 runs.

 

KYLE HARRISON – The San Francisco Giants’ #8 prospect went six shutout innings against Modesto on Friday with one walk and eight strikeouts. Harrison threw 80 pitches, 49 for strikes and got a no-decsion in a duel with Modesto’s Taylor Dollard.

SAN JOSE SWEEPS PLAYER OF THE WEEK AWARDS

San Jose 3B Casey Schmitt and RHP Wil Jensen were honored as Low-A West Player and Pitcher of the Week for the period of June 7-13.

CASEY SCHMITT – The San Francisco Giants’ #16 prospect went 9-for-20 in five games against Stockton with four home runs. After a slow start, Schmitt has heated up in June, slashing .371/.436/.800. He has hit in six straight games and went 4-for-5 with two homers on Saturday.

 

WIL JENSEN – The right-hander went six scoreless innings on Friday against Stockton allowing one hit and one walk while striking out seven. Jensen threw 88 pitches, 57 for strikes, as the Giants shutout the Ports 5-0. For the season, opponents are batting .195 and Jensen’s WHIP  is 0.98.

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK MAY 31 – JUNE 6

Inland Empire’s Jeremiah Jackson has been named Low-A West Player of the week and Rancho Cucamonga’s Braydon Fisher has been named Pitcher of the week.

JEREMIAH JACKSON – The Los Angeles Angels’ #5 prospect went 7-for-20 in six games against Rancho Cucamonga and batted .350/.458/.700. On June 4th, Jackson went 2-for-4 with a double and two walks while driving in four runs. Over the week, Jackson had three multi-hit games and drove in eight runs.

BRAYDON FISHER – RHP Fisher pitched twice out of the bullpen last week, logging 7 1/3 IP, allowing 1 H and 3 BB while striking out  12. On  June 4th against IE, Fisher struck out eight over 4 IP. BAA over the two appearances was .043 and Fisher’s WHIP was 0.52.

PLAYER OF THE WEEK: TAYLOR KOHLWEY

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OF Taylor Kohlwey finished off his stay in A ball with Player of the Week honors. Kohlwey slashed .609/.667/.783 for the Lake Elsinore Storm and earned a promotion to the Padres’ AA club in Amarillo.

Kohlwey played for the Storm in 2017 and briefly in 2018 and got off to a .387/.444/.532 start this season.