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| Preston Guilmet |
This is Holbert's fourth season managing for a Cleveland Indians affiliate. His K-Tribe squad currently holds a half game lead in the Carolina League Southern Division with five games remaining in the regular season. They are 31-14 in one run games and have 34 come from behind wins on the season. He joined Cleveland’s coaching ranks in 2008 with the Lake County Captains and guided them to the South Atlantic League playoffs. Last year in his first season managing at Kinston he led the K-Tribe to the postseason with a 73-67 record.
The Carolina League also announced that right-handed closer Preston Guilmet was named to the year end All-Star team as the league’s best relief pitcher. He is 1-1 with a 1.60 ERA and leads the Carolina League with 34 saves and with 46 games finished. He has converted 34 of 35 save opportunities on the season. Voting for the honorary year end All-Star team was done by league managers, general managers and media.
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2 comments:
Historically the Indians seem to have followed the philosophy that they don't develop closers from draft day up, they cherrypick them at the major league level from other clubs. It would be really nice to see them follow a program where they develop and groom their closers with Preston Guilmet as a star candidate, then graduate them to the major league team.
Yeah, I definitely like how of late they are grooming relievers more in the minors. The problem here is a guy like Guilmet or whomever in Single-A often gets pushed back when those guys who were starting in Single-A or Double-A are transitioned to relief roles. Starting pitchers always carry the priority role in the organization as it is felt if they do not succeed there they can then move to the bullpen whereas there is no fallback for a relief pitcher. Nice to see guys like Guilmet, Burns, etc rack up some impressive save numbers, even though the organization does not value that statistic much at all in the minors. Will be interesting to see what happens with a guy like Guilmet down the road as the industry does not value him much. I hope he proves everyone wrong.
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