Doing his thing and doing it well!

Player of the week! Brew was player of the week the week of May 25- June 3rd in the whole minor league club with the Sox. One of his two roomates was also player of the week! Go Roomies!

Players of the Week, May 28-June 3: Travis Shaw & Ruben Flores

Last week's SoxProspects.com Player and Pitcher of the Week honors were taken by a pair of Salem Red Sox: Travis Shaw and Ruben Flores.

Shaw wasn't the nominee with the highest batting average (.370) or the highest on-base percentage (.500) but what he brought to the plate was power (slugging .889) with six of his ten hits (in 27 at-bats)going for extra bases, four home runs and two doubles. He also scored eight runs and batted in 12, took six bases-on-balls and swiped a base. Shaw is second, to teammate Jackie Bradley, in the Carolina League in batting average at .337 and has an on-base percentage of .427 and is slugging .574 to round out his season triple slash line, with seven home runs, 18 doubles and three triples in 190 at-bats over 52 games. He is the twenty-eighth ranked prospect in the organization by SoxProspects.com.

Flores made two appearances last week, working three no-hit shutout innings in each and fell just short of perfection by allowing a single base-on-balls. It was nine-up-nine-down for Flores at Lynchburg (ATL) May 30 where he struck out five and earned the win and three days later back home against Myrtle Beach (TEX) June 2 when he was less flashy but almost equally effective, walking one and striking out one. On the season Flores owns a 1-0 record with two saves and a 2.01 ERA in 13 appearances over 22.1 innings pitched, striking out 24 while walking only two and holding opposing batters to a .156 average. Flores, 28, was signed out of the independent Frontier League in September 2011 and is a former 12th round pick of Seattle in 2003.      

He has had an amazing streak of perfect scoreless innings! He had about 12 perfect innings and was throwing great! Still is!! Woop Woop! So proud of my man!