Bucci, Davis, Gennett, and Odorizzi Named Midwest League All-Stars
June 8, 2010 - Midwest League (MWL1)
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers News Release
GRAND CHUTE, WI - Nick Bucci, Khris Davis, Scooter Gennett, and Jake Odorizzi will be busy during the Midwest League All-Star break. The quartet of Wisconsin Timber Rattlers players have been selected to participate in the Midwest League All-Star Game at Parkview Field in Fort Wayne, Indiana on Tuesday, June 22.
Gennett and Davis were voted into the game as starters for the Western Division. Bucci and Odorizzi are on the squad as pitchers. The ballots were filled out by managers of the eight teams in the Western Division.
Gennett will be the starting second baseman for the West. The Brewers sixteenth round draft pick from the 2009 draft is the second leading hitter in the Midwest League. As of Monday, Gennett was hitting .355 in 53 games during his first professional season. Gennett had a 13- game hitting streak, the longest of the season for the Timber Rattlers, earlier this season. Gennett also leads the Timber Rattlers in RBI with 32.
Davis will be one of the starters in the outfield for the Western Division squad. He was the seventh round pick of the Brewers in the 2009 draft out of Cal-State Fullerton. Davis leads the Timber Rattlers in home runs with six. His .305 batting average in 54 games puts him just outside the top 10 in the Midwest League in that category. Davis has driven in 30 runs this season for the Rattlers.
Bucci, who was the eighteenth round pick of the Brewers in the 2008 draft, is 3-2 with a 1.74 earned run average in 11 games (eight starts) this season. Bucci's ERA is good for third-best in the Midwest League this season.
Odorizzi, a supplemental first round pick of the Brewers in the 2008 draft, is 2-1 with a save and a 3.81ERA in 11 games (eight starts) during 2010. Odorizzi has struck out 64 batters and walked 18 in 49.2 innings pitched. He is tied for fifth in the league in strikeouts.
The election of Davis and Gennett as starters marks the first time since the 2002 season there have been two Timber Rattlers elected to the starting lineup for the Midwest League All-Star Game. Shin-Soo Choo (OF) and Greg Dobbs (3B) were both starters for the West in the game on June 18, 2002 at Lansing.
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