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A one-time Big 12 freshman of the year and two-time All-American for Oklahoma State, Corey Brown, was called up by the Washington Nationals on Saturday.
He joins a suddenly-getting-crowded Nationals outfield along with Bryce Harper (you may have heard of him?), Rick Ankiel, and Xavier Nady. Jayson Werth was put on the 60-man DL to accomodate Brown.
The sweet-swinging lefty got called up at the end of last year for a trio of ABs before re-starting the season at Syracuse, which is the AAA team for Washington. That call-up was a bit odd considering how much he struggled in 2011: hitting only .235 with 14 HR and 39 RBI in 124 games.
Conversely this year, he got off to a Josh Hamiltonian start, hitting .297 with 12 HR and 30 RBI already through 48 games, including a five-game stretch in which he hit a bomb in every game.
As a self-declared lover of raw athletic talent, Brown is anatomically structured about as perfectly as you can imagine a baseball player being structured. He would have been the best player on this year’s OSU team and if they would have made him bat right handed, he still probably would have been the third or fourth best.
Many more 50-game stretches where he hits .300 with double-digit bombs and Nationals fans are going to have a nice Harper-Brown corner OF duo to go along with their nasty young staff for the next half decade.
I guess it’s good to be a Nationals fan…?
I don’t think saying that he would be the best player on this year’s team is saying much.
That’s probably a good point.
May 2005 his Freshman yr..Brown’s Big BatFreshman Corey Brown has been on a tear
offensively and has become a driving force in the Oklahoma State lineup in the
month of April. Brown is not only making a push for the Big 12′s Freshman of the
Year award, he should also be considered for All-America honors for his
contributions this year. The Tampa, Fla., product went 5-for-11 against Texas
last weekend with a homer, triple, double and three runs scored. He is now
17-for-36 (.472) in his last nine Big 12 games with three homers, six RBIs and
11 runs scored. He leads OSU and is sixth in the conference with a .380 batting
average to go with nine homers and 34 RBI. Both his batting average and homer
totals are tops among freshman in the conference. Brown also leads the Cowboys
with a .417 average in 18 conference games, third best in the Big 12, to go
along with three homers and 12 RBI. He enters the Texas A&M series with a
team best 10-game hitting streak as well.
July 2012
Brad Barr-US PRESSWIRE – PresswireMore photos » 4 months ago: March 12, 2012; Melbourne, FL, USA; Washington Nationals left fielder Corey Brown (10) dives for a ball in the first inning during the spring training game against the St. Louis Cardinals at Space Coast Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Brad Barr-US PRESSWIRE
As of 7/21/2012, he’s hitting
384
.564
.302
..948 in AAA and has 50 XBH games and leads the Nationals organization with 21 HR’s
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Hung out with him a lot in college. Good dude. Cool to see him get to the bigs.