Sledge Elected to 2003 All-PCL team
August 26, 2003 - Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Edmonton Trappers News Release
EDMONTON, AB - The Edmonton Trapper Baseball Club announced today that outfielder Terrmel Sledge has been elected to the 2003 All-PCL team. Members of the team were elected by the League's managers and media representatives.
Sledge, 26, is batting .322 (156-for-484) with 21 home runs and 90 RBI. The native of Fayetteville, North Carolina is tied with Portland's Jason Bay for the league's top slugging percentage (.541) and ranks first with 91 runs scored. Sledge is second in the circuit with 156 hits and is tied for fourth in hitting, while his nine triples are third. He leads the club in several offensive categories including batting average, home runs and stolen bases (12). Sledge is currently riding a 12-game hitting streak during which he is 22-for-50 (.440).
He was also elected to play with the PCL All-Stars that faced the International League All-Stars in the 16th annual Triple-A All-Star Game on July 16th at AutoZone Park in Memphis, Tennessee. Both teams were selected by club field personnel, media representatives and League administrators. Sledge was 1-for-1 with a run scored in the game.
Sledge enjoyed a 20-game hitting streak from May 18 through June 11, tying him for the sixth-longest streak in Trapper history. He was 32-for-75 (.427) with four home runs and 15 RBI during the streak. He was named the Player of the Month for both April and May. In May, Sledge batted .371 (36-for-97) with three home runs and 20 RBI in 25 games, while posting a .429 on-base percentage and a .526 slugging percentage. In April, he batted .295 (26-for-88) with five home runs and 18 RBI in 26 games, while posting a .451 on-base percentage and a .534 slugging percentage.
In 2002, Sledge represented the Harrisburg Senators at the Double-A All-Star Game in Norwich, Connecticut. He was a California League All-Star in 2000, when he led the league in hitting with a .339 batting average (130-for-384) as a member of the Single-A Lancaster JetHawks.
Rated by Baseball America as the Montreal Expos' seventeenth-best prospect entering the 2003 season, Sledge split the 2002 season between Double-A Harrisburg, where he hit .301-8-43, and Triple-A Ottawa, where he hit .263-1-11. He ranked fourth in the organization last year with a .294 batting average. His career minor league batting average is .307 (629-for-2048). Selected by Seattle in the eighth round of the 1999 draft, Sledge was traded by the Mariners to Montreal on September 27, 2000, completing the deal in which the Expos sent catcher Chris Widger to the Mariners for two players to be named on August 8, 2000.
The next Trapper home game will be on Friday, August 29, when the club will take on the Portland Beavers. The game will begin at 7:05 PM. Tickets for all regular season home games are on sale and can be purchased through Ticketmaster at 451-8000. For more information call 414-4450.
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