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June 27, 2007
Pawtucket Red Sox outfielder Brandon Moss has been elected as a starter on the 2007 International League All-Star Team while lefty reliever Craig Breslow and righty reliever Travis Hughes have been selected to the team as well. The 2007 Triple-A All-Star Game will be played on Wednesday, July 11th at Isotopes Park in Albuquerque, New Mexico at 7:35 pm (EDT).
The International League All-Star team is selected by league managers & coaches (1/3), selected media representatives (1/3), and on-line fan balloting (1/3). The 2007 Triple-A Game marks the tenth straight year that All-Star teams from the International League and the Pacific Coast League will face each other (PCL leads, 5-4). The game will be played the night after the Major League All-Star Game and will be televised live on ESPN2 and broadcast live on the PawSox Radio Network (920 AM WHJJ the flagship) beginning at 7:30 pm.
Moss, 23, has made a large impact in his first season at the Triple-A level. He is currently hitting .297 while playing in all 75 PawSox games this season (most in RF) with team-highs of 13 HR (5th in the league) and 54 RBI (4th in the IL). He is also 2nd in the IL with 26 doubles, 2nd with 40 extra-base hits, and is 4th in the league with a .538 slugging pct. Moss, a Georgia native, was selected by Boston in the 8th round of the 2002 draft out of Loganville (GA) High School. Brandon was the MVP of the Eastern League Championship series last September when he led Portland (AA) to the title by hitting .361 with 5 HR & 10 RBI in 9 post-season games.
Breslow, 26, has been among the top relievers in the league for most of the season and heading into play on June 27 he was 1-1 with 1 SV and a 1.59 ERA in 25 relief appearances for the PawSox. In 39.2 innings he has allowed just 30 hits (opponents hitting .208 against him) with only 9 walks and 48 strikeouts (10.9 SO/9 IP). His ERA in home games is a mere 0.82 (2 ER in 22 IP at McCoy Stadium) and he has given up just 1 run total while working in either the 7th or 8th-innings of a game (1 run in 19.2 IP during those innings). Breslow, a native of Trumbull, CT, was signed by the Red Sox as a minor league free agent in February of 2006. He made his major league debut with San Diego in 2005 and had three different stints with the Boston Red Sox last season (going 0-2, 3.75 in 13 RA). A molecular biophysics and biochemistry major at Yale University (2002 graduate) was selected to the 2006 IL All-Star team but did not pitch in the All-Star game at Toledo because he was being promoted to Boston the next day (July 12).
Hughes, 29, has also been brilliant out of the PawSox bullpen this year going 4-3 with a 1.31 ERA along with a team-high 7 saves in 30 relief appearances. His line is 41.1 IP with just 25 hits allowed (opponents batting .179) with only 2 HRA and 35 strikeouts. He took over as PawSox closer at the end of May after posting a scoreless streak of 17 consecutive innings from May 9-28. Hughes, the former Washington National who made 22 relief appearances for the Nationals the last two seasons, was originally drafted by Texas in 1997 and pitched for the Rangers briefly in 2004. Last year he made 51 RA for the New Orleans Zephyrs of the PCL and posted a 2.32 ERA. He was signed by the Red Sox as a free agent last December.
Some other notable PawSox players who have appeared in the Triple-A All-Star Game since the event began in 1988 include: INF Tim Naehring (1990), 3B Scott Cooper & OF Phil Plantier (1991), Brian Rose (1997), Trot Nixon (1998), Tomo Ohka (2000), and RHP Bronson Arroyo (2003).
--PAWTUCKET RED SOX
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