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Washington Nationals 2018 minor league awards

By Benjamin Chase

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 20: Juan Soto #22 of the Washington Nationals celebrates a double during a baseball game against the New York Mets at Nationals Park on September 20, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 20: Juan Soto #22 of the Washington Nationals celebrates a double during a baseball game against the New York Mets at Nationals Park on September 20, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images) /
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NEW YORK, NY – AUGUST 26: Jeffry Rodriguez #68 of the Washington Nationals in action against the New York Mets at Citi Field on August 26, 2018 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. Players are wearing special jerseys with their nicknames on them during Players’ Weekend. The Nationals defeated the Mets 15-0. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images) /

The Washington Nationals had a rough season to end a run at the top of the National League East. In spite of that, there were very bright spots from young players on the season.

As part of our continuing coverage at Call to the Pen of the minor leagues, we will be covering each organization’s top players for 2018. The coverage will go in reverse order of record. Today, we will look at the Washington Nationals.

We are going to review the system’s leaders for each organization statistically, then choose one hitter and one pitcher to honor for every team. This will be primarily based on statistical performance, though some “age relative to level” could come into play, so a very impressive season from a 28-year-old in AA will rank below a nearly as impressive season from a 20-year-old at the same level.

After we review each organization’s hitter and pitcher of the year, we will close out October with Call To The Pen’s Minor League team of the year. That will lead into November starting our team top 10 prospect lists. In other words, there will be plenty of minor league content on the way at CTTP, so keep coming back for more each day this offseason!!

Washington Nationals minor leagues

The Washington Nationals have been keeping a shallow, but talented, farm system for the last half-decade as they’ve traded away top prospects in trades to maintain their competitiveness. They’ve been able to retain their elite prospects along the way.

The major league team saw the emergence of Juan Soto in 2018, and there are a number of young players who could be the next Soto in 2019 and 2020.

Before we offer up awards on the season, let’s take a look at the system’s statistical leaders:

Organization Leaders (min. 150 PA, 50 IP)

BA: Juan Soto .362
OBP: Juan Soto .462
SLG: Juan Soto .757
OPS: Juan Soto 1.218
R: Carter Kieboom 84
H: Luis Garcia 149
2B: Cole Freeman 32
3B: Three with 7
HR: Rhett Wiseman 21
RBI: Jake Noll 72
SB: Cole Freeman 26
TB: Carter Kieboom 219

W: Wil Crowe, Sterling Sharp 11
G: Chris Smith 49
GS: Sterling Sharp 27
IP: Brady Dragmire 149
SV: Roman Mendez 11
K: Kyle McGowin 152
ERA: Austen Williams 1.19
WHIP: Austen Williams 0.84
K/9: James Bourque 12.9
K/BB: Malvin Pena 5.24

Let’s look at the award winners…

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