Reeves, De Jesus earn final weekly honors of June

State of Virginia sweeps awards for June 24-30

Photos via Lindsay Carico/Lynchburg Hillcats and John Wacher/Salem Red Sox.

July 1, 2019

Thanks to outstanding performances, Lynchburg's Mitch Reeves and Salem's Enmanuel De Jesus have claimed the Carolina League's Player and Pitcher of the Week awards, respectively, for June 24-30, the league office announced on Monday afternoon.
Reeves collected his first professional weekly award in his first full week within the Carolina League. A midseason promotion from Low-A Lake County, Reeves paced all CL qualifiers in both on-base percentage (.538) and OPS (1.205). The former Florida Southern star was also in the top 10 in the league in slugging percentage (.667), batting average (T-4th, .429), walks (T-4th, 5) and total bases (T-7th, 14).

Cleveland's 32nd-round pick in 2017, Reeves hit .257 with six home runs and 37 RBIs in 59 games with the Captains before jumping to the High-A level. Powered by last week's outstanding performance, Reeves boasts a .375 average (12-for-32) with two homers and nine RBIs in his nine games with the Hillcats, who are off to a 6-5 start in the second half after a second-place showing in the first half.
De Jesus stymied two of the top offenses in the Carolina League to the tune of only one earned run over 12.2 innings for his second career weekly award, with the first coming in Low-A Greenville last July. On Monday against Fayetteville, the Venezuela native worked seven innings and surrendered just three unearned runs in a tough-luck loss. Five days later, the left-hander worked into the sixth and gave up just one run in a 2-1 victory for the Red Sox.
In particular, De Jesus wowed with his strikeout total. He fanned 18 over his 12.2 innings of work last week, which was good for a share of second place in all of Minor League Baseball over that stretch. Only Caleb Smith of Jacksonville (Double-A, Miami) had more last week with 19. Overall this season, De Jesus is 5-6 with a 3.81 earned run average in 14 strong starts for Salem.
Both the Hillcats and Red Sox begin this week on the road before heading home for the weekend. Lynchburg invades Frederick for the first of three on Monday at 7 p.m., while the Red Sox tangle with the Woodpeckers in Fayetteville for a 7 p.m. game of their own.