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Dave Williams Named To PCL All-Star Team

June 24, 2004 - Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Nashville Sounds News Release


Nashville starting pitcher Dave Williams has been named to the Pacific Coast League All-Star team and will represent the Sounds on the 28-man squad that takes on the International League stars in the 2004 Triple-A All-Star Game on Wednesday, July 14 at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, R.I.

Williams, 25, currently ranks second among Pacific Coast League hurlers with 70 strikeouts and ranks 13th in the circuit in ERA. The Tampa, Fla. resident is 4-2 with a team-best 3.96 ERA through 15 starts this season and has walked only 22 batters in his 88 2/3 innings of work. The left-hander has held the opposition to two runs or less in 10 of his 15 starts and carries a 1.25 WHIP, good for eighth among circuit pitchers.

The All-Star nod is the first mid-season selection of Williams’ seven-year pro career. He was selected to the 2001 South Atlantic League postseason All-Star team but has never played in an All-Star Game.

Williams is the third Nashville starting pitcher to garner a mid-season All-Star bid in the past four years. Perfect game hurler John Wasdin was selected last year but missed the game due to a trade to the Toronto Blue Jays. Veteran right-hander Don Wengert was the last Sounds starter to appear in the Triple-A All-Star Game; he pitched a perfect sixth inning in the 2001 contest.

Reliever Mark Corey, who currently ranks second in the PCL with 13 saves, was tentatively slotted as the second Nashville player on the All-Star team but was taken off the roster this morning after being recalled by the Pittsburgh Pirates. Corey has posted a 1-1 record and 2.39 ERA in 22 appearances for the Sounds this season, fanning 26 batters while walking only six. His 43 career saves in a Nashville uniform are the most in franchise history.

Due to Corey’s recall to Pittsburgh, Nashville is left as one of six PCL clubs with one player named to the squad. Tacoma (AAA-Mariners) and Colorado Springs (AAA-Rockies) each had three players selected to lead the circuit.


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