ROCHESTER, N.Y. — One week in the books and plenty of first impressions made.
Oneonta’s Ben Mauseth (Grand Canyon U) and Genesee’s Zach Uher (Baruch) nabbed top billing. Mauseth earned New York Collegiate Baseball League’s Hitter of the Week honors while Uher was named the league’s top pitcher.
Mauseth (Grand Canyon University) is third in batting average, tied for second in OBP, first in RBI, and tied for first in home runs all while only playing in just four games, tied for the least amount of games played by a team in the NYCBL. Four also marks the switch-hitter’s current hitting streak as he’s had at least one knock in each of the four games Oneonta has played in, including multi-hit games in three of the four contests. Mauseth came out of the gates swinging hitting a home run and a double in the opener on June fifth, then two runs scored and one driven on the sixth. He followed with three RBI and two doubles performance on the seventh. Mauseth also leads the league in the runs created metric (RC)-an estimate of how many runs a player has generated when taking into account hits, walks, total bases, and at bats-with a total of seven, or just over 20 percent of Oneonta’s run’s this season.
In the past week Uher has thrown in three games, making two starts with a relief appearance in between. What sticks out the most about Uher’s respectable stat line is the fact that he’s 2-0, currently the best record in the young NYCBL season. Even more impressive? Those two wins came against teams doing their best California Chrome impression at the top of the Western division in Niagara (4-2) and Rochester (5-2). Component ERA (ERC), a sabermetric that attempts to predict what a pitcher’s ERA will eventually be considers walks allowed and hits allowed instead of the traditional earned runs allowed divided by nine. Currently Uher’s ERC is just a hair under 4.51. For perspective, if he were to have this number in the majors, he’d be just ahead of Boston’s Jake Peavy, and just behind Cleveland’s Justin Masterson, Detroit’s Justin Verlander, and Toronto’s R.A. Dickey.
Honorable Mention
Cooper Belyea (Syracuse Jr. Chiefs/Ithaca College) .444 Avg./ 4 H/ 3 R/ 2 RBI
Kevin Berge (Geneva Twins/St. John Fisher) 2 wins/ 5.2 / 7 Ks/ 0 BB/ 0.00 ERA/ 3 hits – relief pitcher
Jon Cruz (Geneva Red Wings/Dowling College) .440 avg/ 7 runs/ 1 2B/ 2 3B/ 1 HR (grand slam)/ 5 RBI, 4 BB
Joe Gnacinski (Hornell Dodgers/Mercyhurst) 1-1/ 12.2IP/ 19K/ 2BB/ 2.84 ERA
Dan Harms (Wellsville Nitros/Mansfield) 2-0/ 16 IP/ 11K/ .182 BAA
Alex Lopez (Olean Oilers/Texas Wesleyan) 1-0/ 8IP/ 8K/ 0.00 ERA
Tom Taplin (Cortland Crush/University of Buffalo) 4.2 IP/0R/4K/)BB/1-0
Anthony Massicci (Syracuse Salt Cats/Canisius) .345 avg./ 10H/ 4 RBI/ 4 BB/ 2SB
Reid Neal (Sherrill Silversmiths/Florida Atlantic U) .385 avg./5 RBI/10 H/2 2B/2 SB
Ryan Wagley (Niagara Power/Arlington Baptist) .375 avg./ 4 RBI/ 9H/ 3 2B/ 4BB
Nick Wolyniec (Rochester Ridgemen/Bergen CC) .474/ 5RBI/9H/ 2SB
Honor Roll
Ivan Acuna (Niagara/Catawba Valley CC), Mike Annone (Geneva Twins/Wilmington U), Hunter Bingham (Niagara/ William Jewell College), Andrew Bonnette (Genesee/Walsh), Wesley Burghardt (SUNY Brockport), Mitch Cavanagh (Sherrill/St. Johns ), Christ Conley (Wellsville/Canisius), Ryan Contegni (Syracuse Jr. Chiefs/Ithaca College), Cam Coons (Geneva Red Wings/Alvernia), Yaniel Delgado (Syracuse Salt Cats/Benedict), Tre Edwards (Geneva Twins/Murray State College), Matt Emge (Rochester/Pitt), Connor Grey (Hornell/St. Bonaventure), Ben Haefner (Wellsville/University of Buffalo), Taylor Hicks (Oneonta/ University of Georgia), Greg Jasek (Clarkson University), Ryan Kohlhofer (Defiance), Zach Krivda (Hornell/Penn State Greater Allegheny), Harley Moore (Olean/Dickinson), Aveeno Nasiloski (Syracuse Salt Cats/Chicago St.), Ramon Osuna Sanchez (Oneonta/College of Charleston), Shane Soria (Rochester/Glendale CC), Nathan Stanley (Genesee/Clearwater Christian), Nate Stemle (Syracuse Jr. Chiefs/Kentucky Wesleyan), Cody Tolbert (Sherrill/Ft Scott CC), Bill Whaley (Geneva Red Wings/Norwich)
Contributing: Tim Mullhaupht/New York Collegiate Baseball League
Leave a Reply