Eight Stars Grace All-Star Roster

June 3, 2014 - Southern League (SL1)
Huntsville Stars News Release


(Huntsville, AL) - The Southern League of Professional Baseball Clubs has announced the North Division roster

for the 2014 Southern League All-Star Game, which is scheduled for June 17 at AT&T Field in Chattanooga.

Eight players from the first place Stars will be present on the roster, the most of any team in the division.

Six pitchers (four starters) are represented from the Huntsville staff which helped accumulate the league's

best WHIP (1.18), second best ERA (3.06), and the second most shutouts (seven).

Starter Tyler Cravy (8-1) leads the Southern League in ERA (1.76), WHIP, and wins. His WHIP of 0.86 ranks

seventh in all of Minor League Baseball. Cravy has gone nine straight starts without a loss since his lone

setback on April 13. He has compiled 52 strikeouts to just 13 walks on the season and earned Southern League

Pitcher of the Week for the week of May 5th-11th.

Fellow starters Drew Gagnon (4-2, 2.50 ERA), Taylor Jungmann (4-4, 2.77), and Brent Suter (6-4, 3.25) join

Cravy on the roster. Gagnon has not allowed more than three earned runs in a game all season. He also won

Pitcher of the Week for the week of May 12th-18th. Jungmann, who also made the 2013 team, was promoted

to Triple-A Nashville on May 23 and is now in their rotation in his third year of professional ball. Suter is tied

for third in league wins, innings pitched (72), and strikeouts (59), and fourth in WHIP (1.10).

Stars closer David Goforth (2-2, 2.86) will also grace the roster. Goforth's 12 saves lead the division and are

second in the league. His 19 games finished are tied for the league lead, and the reliever also has one hold on

the year. Arcenio Leon (2-0, 2.18) has four holds in 24 appearances after a successful conversion from starter

to reliever for the 2014 campaign. The Venezuelan native sports a 0.94 WHIP and a 29:8 strikeout to walk

ratio.

During his first year of Double-A ball, first baseman Nick Ramirez is tied for fourth in the league with 10

homeruns and 40 RBI and sits at third with 108 total bases and 35 runs. Ramirez is joined by converted third

baseman Jason Rogers. Rogers has driven in 31 runs and makes a midseason All-Star team for the third

consecutive year. The 2013 Brewers Minor League Player of the Year was selected last year as a Southern

League first baseman and also made the 2012 Midwest League All-Star roster.

Players were selected by a vote of Southern League field managers, radio broadcasters, general managers and

print media. All players on Southern League rosters as of May 15 were eligible in the voting.



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