October 1, 2024 – Southern League (SL)
Biloxi Shuckers News Release
BEST IN THE ORG: RHP K.C. Hunt, RHP Craig Yoho and SS Cooper Pratt were all selected for the organization’s Robin Yount
Performance Awards… Hunt and Yoho were named the organization’s Co-Minor League Pitchers of the Year… Pratt was
named the organization’s Co-Minor League Hitter of the Year alongside SS Jesus Made.
With the Shuckers, RHP Craig Yoho made 18 appearances, held a 1.17 ERA and struck out 46 batters over 23.0 innings…
Yoho finished the season among the Double-A leaders (min. 20ip) in strikeout rate (1st, 46.5%), fielding independent
pitching (1st, 0.62), groundball rate (6th, 62.2%) and swinging strike rate (11th, 18.6%).
Across 25 appearances and 14 starts across 3 levels, RHP K.C. Hunt finished with a 2.03 ERA, 139 strikeouts and 25
walks over 102.0 innings… Hunt’s 139 strikeouts ranked as the second-most in the organization… With the Shuckers,
he held a 2.20 ERA across six starts in the regular season with 39 strikeouts in 32.2 innings… In his only playoff
appearance, in game two of the Southern League Division Series, Hunt set a career-high with 7.2 innings and allowed
one run, the third-longest playoff start in franchise history.
SS Cooper Pratt reached Double-A Biloxi for the Southern League Playoffs, going 2-for-8 with home run and 3 RBI in
2 games during the Division Series… In the regular season, Pratt split time between Single-A Carolina and the High-A
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, putting together a .277/.362/.406 slash line across 96 games… With Wisconsin, Pratt also
recorded 5 home runs in 23 games before going 5-for-20 in the postseason during the team’s run to the Midwest
League Championship Series.
HEY NOW, YOU’RE AN ALL-STAR: RHP Blake Holub and 1B Ernesto Martinez Jr. were both named 2024 Southern League
All-Stars… It was the 5th time in franchise history (since 2015) that multiple Shuckers were named to the post-season
All-Star team… It was the 2nd consecutive season with multiple selections after a franchise-record 4 players were
named All-Stars in 2023.
1B Ernesto Martinez Jr. appeared in a team-high 110 games, including 86 starts at first base… He finished the
year among the Southern League leaders in doubles (1st, 30), OPS (2nd, .831), extra-base hits (3rd, 45), slugging
percentage (3rd, .466), hits (4th, 114), on-base percentage (5th, .365), average (6th, .284), RBI (6th, 62) and strikeout
rate (7th, 16.8%)… His 45 extra-base hits ranked…
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