Shawn Sanford tearing it up!

Shawn Sanford, a Cinnaminson, N.J. native and a 2006 Cinnaminson High School graduate, has been lights out this season for the San Francisco Giant's Single-A affiliate, Augusta GreenJackets.

Sanford throws a pitch against the Crawdads during a game
on July 29, 2011. Sanford went eight strong innings, giv-
ing up zero runs on three hits, no walks, and two strikeouts.

The right-handed pitcher threw eight scoreless innings tonight against the Hickory Crawdads (what a team name) of the South Atlantic League, improving his season record to 8-6 and lowering his ERA to a minuscule 2.36 over 122.0 IP.

In his last ten games, he is 6-2 with a 2.00 ERA.

Sanford is definitely looking at a potential call-up in the near future. Not only has he been pitching unbelievably, but the Giants traded their top pitching prospect, Double-A right-hander Zach Wheeler, in the recent Carlos Beltran deal with the New York Mets.

That leaves a vacancy at Double-A, and with how well Sanford has pitched this season, you have to think the Giants would be hard-pressed to not seriously consider promoting Sanford.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Shawn and write a piece about his baseball career.


Check out the story here.

Shawn is truly a class act. He literally took 45 minutes out of his busy schedule to talk to me for an interview about a month ago.

Sanford is the type of guy that I personally love to see thrive, mostly because he has not let the fact that he is a professional baseball player get to his head.

He was by far one of the best interviews I have ever conducted in my young journalism career.

Hopefully Sanford will continue to perform well in the minor-league circuit so we can see him in the MLB in the near future.