About a week ago, I covered Adam Liberatore (Waynesboro 2007-08), with a “Free Adam” theme. The idea is that Adam is performing very well in Triple-A, and deserves a major league call up (In my opinion, of course).
The next player I was going to cover on the same theme was Eric Campbell (Luray 2006), since he was tearing up Triple-A Las Vegas in the New York Mets’ system.
The Mets beat me to it, as they called Eric up a couple days ago. He made his major league debut yesterday, May 10th, against the Philadelphia Phillies.
Eric surely deserved a callup, since he was destroying Triple-A pitching to the tune of 355/442/525 in 141 at-bats, with 15 doubles, and a 20/20 BB/K ratio. He had gone 17-43 in his last ten games, which is a slash line of 395/490/535.
Eric joins four other former Valley Leaguers from the 2008 draft who have played in the major leagues: Yonder Alonso (Luray 2006), Collin Cowgill (Covington 2005), Blake Tekotte (Woodstock 2006), and Joey Butler (New Market 2006) (who was just called up to St. Louis himself). Looks like 2006 was a banner year in the Valley!
Congratulations, Eric- you will forever be a major league baseball player!
Click the link below to see his first at-bat!
http://m.mlb.com/video/v32769135/phinym-campbells-sac-fly-in-first-plate-appearance/?c_id=mlb
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