Terrmel Sledge Named PCL Batter of the Week
September 2, 2003 - Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Edmonton Trappers News Release
EDMONTON, AB - The Edmonton Trapper Baseball Club announced today that outfielder Terrmel Sledge has been named the PCL Batter of the Week for the games of August 25th through September 1st. He is the third Trapper to win a Player of the Week honour this season. Scott Hodges was the Batter of the Week in July and Blake Stein won a Pitcher of the Week honour in early August.
Sledge batted .474 (9-for-19) with three home runs and nine RBI during that span. He also collected two doubles and a triple while recording a 1.158 slugging percentage and a .500 on-base percentage. Sledge scored seven runs.
Sledge, 26, batted .324 (161-for-497) with 22 home runs and 92 RBI with the Trappers in 2003. The native of Fayetteville, North Carolina led the Pacific Coast League with 95 runs scored while finishing second with 161 hits, third in RBI and tied for third in hitting. He finished second in both slugging percentage (.545) and third in triples (nine). Sledge led the Trappers in batting average, home runs, RBI, hits, slugging percentage, runs scored, triples and stolen bases (13). He ended the season with a 16-game hitting streak during which he went 27-for-63 (.429).
For his efforts, Sledge was named the 2003 Trapper of the Year. He was also elected to the 2003 All-PCL team and participated in the 16th annual Triple-A All-Star Game on July 16th at AutoZone Park in Memphis, Tennessee. Sledge was 1-for-1 with a run scored in the all-star 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 April, May and August.
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 Wednesday, September 3rd, when the club will take on the Sacramento River Cats in Game 1 of the best-of-five Pacific Conference Final. The game will begin at 7:05 PM. Tickets for all playoff games are on sale and can be purchased through Ticketmaster at 451-8000. For more information call 414-4450.
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