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2025 in Review
PLAYER DEVELOPMENT 2026

ANGELS 2025 MINOR LEAGUE AWARDS
Kenny Myers Memorial Minor League Player of the Year Award .. ..... ...... .... Raudi Rodriguez
Howie Gershberg Minor League Pitcher of the Year Award... ...... ..... ....... .... Dylan Jordan
Aaron Cox Award ... ...... ..... ....... ..... ...... ..... ..... ...... ...... ...... . Peter Burns
Preston Gomez Minor League Manager of the Year Award ... ...... ..... ....... ....Hainley Statia
Mara Forcey Award (Staff Member of the Year) .... ...... ...... ....Ken Galletta and Doug Jarrow
Iron Angel Award ... ...... ..... ....... ..... ...... ..... ..... ...... ...... Trey Gregory-Alford
Comeback Player of the Year ... ...... ..... ...... ..... ...... ..... ...... ...... ... Marco Vega
Education Program Student Of The Year .. ...... ..... ...... ...... ...... ..... . Anyelo Marquez

SALT LAKE BEES (65-84) ROCKET CITY TRASH PANDAS (45-92)

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The Salt Lake Bees, led by manager Keith Johnson, The Rocket City Trash Pandas, managed by Andy
finished their first season in their new stadium, The Schatzley, finished fourth overall in the Southern
Ballpark at America First Square, in third place in the League North Division with a record of 45-92 (.328)
Pacific Coast League West division with a 35-39 (.473) in 2025. PLAYER DEVELOPMENT
record in the second half. • The Trash Pandas featured three Southern
• INF Niko Kavadas finished second in the PCL with League Players of the Week, including INF
28 home runs and ranked sixth with 84 RBI. Denzer Guzman (June 30-July 6), INF Sam Brown
• INF Chad Stevens ranked seventh in the PCL with (July 7-13), and RHP Walbert Ureña (Sept. 8-14).
133 hits, and ranked eighth with 82 runs scored • OF Nelson Rada ranked fourth in the league in
and 220 total bases. OBP (.380), sixth in stolen bases (34) and
• RHP Victor Mederos went 7-5 with a 3.39 ERA seventh in AVG (.277).
(87.2 IP - 33 ER) with 71 strikeouts. • LHP Mitch Farris led the Southern League in
• LHP Sammy Peralta was named the PCL Pitcher strikeouts (142) at the time of his promotion to
of the Month for July after posting a 2.11 ERA MLB on Sept. 1 and ranked in the top 10 among
(21.1 IP - 5 ER) and .192 BAA in six games (two qualified starters in ERA (4.27).
starts) during the month.

TRI-CITY DUST DEVILS (61-70)

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The Tri-City Dust Devils, led by manager Dann
Bilardello, finished in third place with a record of
61-70 (.566) in the High-A Northwest League...
Finished the second half 31-34.
• OF Rio Foster led the league in OBP (.407)
and ranked second in OPS (.846). Foster was
named the Northwest League Player of the
Month for August, the Dust Devils' second
monthly award of the season following INF
Ryan Nicholson (April).
• RHP Ryan Johnson was named a High-A All
Star in his first professional season after going
4-3 with a 1.88 ERA (57.1 IP - 12 ER) with 65
strikeouts in 12 starts.

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