Things have started to slow down as it appears a number of players’ summers have wrapped up, but incoming Freshman Palmer Hornick made his summer debut with Pulaski in the Appalachian League this past week. Player(s) of the Week • Aiden Arnett (Pulaski, Appalachian League) – For the fourth week in a row, Arnett has garnered co-Player of the Week honors amongst VT players with another productive stretch of games. For the week, he played in 3 games and posted a slash line of .333 avg / .538 obp / .444 slg / .983 ops with a hit in all three games and extended his hitting streak to 17 games. The only negative was that he had his first error of the summer with a 2-error game in CF on 7/11. • Willie Hurt (Upper Valley, NECBL) – His week featured a 3-hit game on 7/10 and finished last week with a slash line of .286 avg / .400 obp / .333 slg / .733 ops in 5 games which included a double, 7 runs scored and 4 stolen bases. For the summer, his slash line is somewhat modest (.247 avg / .378 obp / .270 slg / .648 ops) and he hasn’t hit for much power, but he has a team-leading 16 steals and 8 hbp on the summer. Other Notes • Palmer Hornick (Pulaski, Appalachian League) – He made his summer debut this past week with Pulaski and appears to have essentially swapped with JM Szefc as an infielder for that team. In 3 games and 12 plate appearances, he went 3-for-11 (.273) with a double but walked just once (8% bb rate) and struck out 5 times (42% so rate). • Pete Daniel (Brewster, Cape Cod League) – He continues to struggle in the Cape as he went just 1-for-7 in 9 plate appearances across 3 games this past week and for the summer in 31 plate appearances is slashing just .130 avg / .323 obp / .130 slg / .453 ops. With not being drafted, it will be interesting to see if he ends up returning to VT for next season. • Jake Wise (Pulaski, Appalachian League) – After finding some recent success, Wise made one relief appearance last week and struggled by giving up 2 earned runs and 4 hits in 0.2 innings of work. The outing caused his summer era and whip to move back up slightly to 10.22 era and 2.51 whip. • Danny Lazaro (Upper Valley, NECBL) – He had a bit of a bumpy outing last week. He didn’t give up any runs or hits in 0.2 innings but struggled with command as he walked 3 of 4 batters he faced and threw just 32% of his 19 pitches for strikes which was abnormal for him as coming into the outing, he had thrown 67% of his pitches this summer for strikes.