Here's an update on my brother from a couple weeks ago.

A year after being drafted, he's playing for the Hagerstown Suns, the A team for the Nationals. He just made the All Star team and has been doing really well. He seems to be settling into the grove, and is doing way better that the short season last year where he lived in a house with 15 boys (50% of them non-English speaking Dominicans), sleeping on an air mattress, and not being around his college girlfriend anymore (they're still going strong, amazingly enough.)

He's been relieving lately and relieving great. Closed out two scoreless innings today and four scoreless the week before. Picked up a couple wins. 3/1 win/loss. 1.6 era. 45 innings pitched. 24 strike outs. 13 walks. Not to shabby!

In the last couple weeks he's transitioned to a starter, which is awesome. He started the past couple games, giving 6 solid innings in each.

Before a crowd of 7,426, it was another outstanding night of pitching for Hagerstown (29-26) as starter MY BABY BROTHER!!! worked six scoreless frames, allowing just three hits and two walks, to slice his ERA to 1.85.