SAVAGE AND PARISI AMONG PITCHING LEADERS; CHRISTIAN, RODRIGUEZ AMONG BEST ON OFFENSE

With the start of a new week, I checked up on some of the former Independent players who have been among league leaders in Class AA and AAA leagues:

Will Savage (Wichita, KS, American Association, and Lancaster, PA, Atlantic League) continues to share the Pacific Coast League lead with seven wins after taking a no-decision Saturday. Savage has been in 11 games for the Dodgers' Albuquerque farm club, starting six of them, and is 7-0 with a 3.40 earned run average.

Teammate Mike Parisi (Long Island, NY, Atlantic) has moved up to second in the PCL earned run average race. He is at 2.61 and has 32 strikeouts in 38 innings.

On the offensive side, outfielder Justin Christian, who started in Indy baseball (River City, Frontier League) and also has played for Southern Maryland (Atlantic), is still in second place in the PCL in hitting (.373) with four home runs and 23 RBI plus seven stolen bases. He is with San Francisco's Fresno farm club.

First baseman Reynaldo Rodriguez (Yuma, AZ, Golden League) is tied for second in home runs with nine in the Double-A Eastern League and is hitting .257 with 23 ribbies for Portland, ME, a Boston farm club.

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