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Alvarez and Cox capture player of the week honors

May 23, 2005 - Central Baseball League (Central League) News Release


San Angelo OF Jorge Alvarez and Jackson LHP Adam Cox were chosen by SportsTicker, the Central League's official statistician, as Batter and Pitcher of the Week for the week of May 16-May 22.

In six games, Alvarez went 11-for-25 with three home runs, three doubles, and six RBI for a .440 batting average and a .920 slugging percentage. His best night of the week came on Monday, when he went 3-for-4 with two solo home runs in San Angelo's 6-3 victory over Jackson, the Colts' only win of the week. The native of Las Terrenas Sanchez, Dominican Republic, is currently fifth in the league with a .375 batting average, and is tied with Fort Worth's Terence Green for the league lead in home runs with five. He is also tied with El Paso's Carlos Sepulveda with 19 RBI, good for first in the league.

Alvarez, 36, is currently in his 18th year of professional baseball and is in his ninth season in the Central/Texas-Louisiana League. Signed as a nondrafted free agent by Los Angeles in 1988, he spent six years in the Dodgers system and one in the Florida Marlins organization, reaching as high as AA, before joining the TLL's Laredo Apaches in 1995. Since then, he has also played for Amarillo, Alexandria and Shreveport in the CBL/TLL, as well as in Taiwan, Mexico, and the Atlantic League. Alvarez was the 2002 CBL MVP with Alexandria, batting .316 and leading the league with 23 home runs and 105 RBI.

Cox was brilliant in his only start of the week, allowing just one hit in seven innings of work, striking out ten, as Jackson cruised to a 5-1 victory over San Angelo on Wednesday. The Valdosta, Georgia, native is now 2-0 with a 2.65 ERA in three starts for the Senators.

Now in his second season with the Senators, Cox, 24, was a fourth-round draft pick of the Cleveland Indians in the 2000 draft after playing one season at Darton Junior College in Albany, Georgia. After going 2-4 with a 4.82 ERA at rookie-level Burlington in 2000, he was sidelined with an injury for the entire 2001 season. Cox pitched four games for single-A Columbus in 2002, before also spending the 2003 season on the disabled list. Last season, he pitched three games for the Senators, going 0-2 with a 6.17 ERA.

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