In our last installment of the minor league career record book, we have batting average, the one entry where active players can move up and down.
| 2006-2018 | |||
| 1 | Tommy La Stella | Haymarket ’09 | 0.310 |
| 2 | Tyler White | Haymarket ’10 | 0.305 |
| 3 | Jon Jay | Staunton ’04 | 0.300 |
| 4 | Cory Spangenberg | Winchester ’10 | 0.299 |
| 5 | Dan Murphy | Luray ’05 | 0.297 |
| John Raynor | New Market ’04 | 0.297 | |
| 7 | Clint Robinson | Harrisonburg ’05-06 | 0.295 |
| Tyler Kuhn | Luray ’06-07 | 0.295 | |
| 9 | Yonder Alonso | Luray ’06 | 0.294 |
| 10 | Eric Campbell | Luray ’06 | 0.292 |
| 11 | Ryan McBroom | Haymarket ’11-12 | 0.291 |
| 12 | Patrick Mazeika | Waynesboro ’13 | 0.290 |
Additions:
- Eric Campbell raised his average to .292
- Patrick Mazeika joined the list as well
Changes:
- Cory Spangenberg only had 88 at-bats in the minors in 2018, but he had 30 hits! So he went from a tie for 5th place with John Raynor to 4th.
- Daniel Murphy’s minor league average went down two points, too, which dropped him back to Raynor.
| All-Time | |||
| 1 | Billy Sample | Harrisonburg ’75 | 0.355 |
| 2 | Chad Tracy | Staunton ’99 | 0.338 |
| 3 | Juan Pierre | Harrisonburg ’97 | 0.331 |
| 4 | John Kruk | New Market ’81 | 0.325 |
| 5 | Kevin Kouzmanoff | Winchester ’02 | 0.316 |
| 6 | Orlando Gonzalez | Harrisonburg | 0.312 |
| 7 | Tommy La Stella | Haymarket ’09 | 0.310 |
| 8 | Aubrey Huff | Staunton | 0.309 |
| Luis Lopez | Winchester ’92-3 | 0.309 | |
| 10 | John Castellano | Staunton | 0.307 |
| 11 | Christopher Carter | Waynesboro ’01 | 0.305 |
| 12 | Steve Decker | Front Royal | 0.302 |
| 13 | Tyler White | Haymarket ’10 | 0.301 |
| 14 | Hunter Bledsoe | Front Royal | 0.300 |
| Jon Jay | Staunton ’04 | 0.300 | |
| 16 | Ryan Shealy | Harrisonburg ’99 | 0.299 |
| Cory Spangenberg | Winchester ’10 | 0.299 | |
| 18 | Nick Stavinoha | Front Royal ’03 | 0.298 |
| 19 | Dan Murphy | Luray ’05 | 0.297 |
| Mike Lowell | Waynesboro ’93 | 0.297 | |
| John Raynor | New Market ’04 | 0.297 |
- The Murphy/Spangenberg changes happened on this list, too.
- Billy Sample, inducted into the VBL Hall of Fame last summer, has this list well in hand!
Sample
La Stella
