On the heels of impressive months, Minor League Baseball has announced that Carson Benge has been named Eastern League Player of the Month and Brandon Sproat International League Pitcher of the Month for the month of July.

Benge, who was also named Amazin’ Avenue Player of the Week for his performance last week, was promoted to the Double-A Binghamton Rumble Ponies at the end of June after an extremely productive three months with the High-A Brooklyn Cyclones. Appearing in 60 games in Coney Island, Benge hit.302/.417/.480 with 18 doubles, 5 triples, 4 home runs, 15 stolen bases in 17 attempts, and drew 41 walks to 50 strikeouts. While he did not hit the ground running immediately after his promotion, hitting .250/.429/.313 in his first series, Benge did not struggle either. By the beginni

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