Cubs announce minor league player and pitcher of the year

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Wednesday, the Cubs announced Victor Caratini and Jen-Ho Tseng as the organization's minor league player and pitcher of the year, respectively.

Caratini turned 24 last month and boasted an insane .342/.393/.558 slash line (.951 OPS) in Triple-A Iowa this season, his first year at the upper level of the Cubs minor league system. 

The switch-hitting catcher also clubbed 10 homers and 27 doubles while driving in 61 runs and scoring 50 in 83 games. He has spent more than a month in Chicago with the big-league team, where he's appeared in 24 games and hit .250 with a .696 OPS.

Caratini was initially acquired from the Atlanta Braves at the 2014 trade deadline when the Cubs sent Emilio Bonifacio and James Russell to Atlanta.

Tseng, 22, is a right-handed pitcher who spent most of the year with Double-A Tennessee, but also made nine starts with Triple-A Iowa. All told, he went 13-4 with a 2.54 ERA and 1.14 WHIP in 24 starts, striking out 122 batters in 145.1 innings.

The Taiwanese pitcher has been in the Cubs organization since 2014, when he made 17 starts and two relief appearances for the Class-A Kane County Cougars. He has a career 3.17 minor-league ERA.


 

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