Career Highlights: Fourth season of professional baseball and second with the Wingnuts…contract purchased by Wichita from Frontier League’s Windy City Thunderbolts on 3/16/09….301 career hitter in 277 games, 48 doubles, 17 home runs, 139 RBI…has made the All-Star Team in each of the first three years of his career…won back-to-back Frontier League championships in 2007 and 2008 with Windy City…played at Middle Tennessee State University, hitting .330 in 55 games as a senior in 2006 for the Blue Raiders…also played at Columbia State Community College…served as a volunteer assistant coach for Belmont University…also coached High School freshman baseball
2009
Wichita (American Association/Ind.): Hit .310 with three home runs and 43 RBI in 93 games for the Wingnuts…opened season as Wichita’s second baseman before taking over at shortstop in early June…also moved from second in the order to the leadoff spot in late June where he remained the rest of the season…drew 45 walks and struck out just 56 times….393 on-base percentage…collected 113 hits while scoring 68 runs…stole 19 bases with one caught stealing…never thrown out by an opposing catcher on a steal attempt (lone CS came on pickoff play)…starting shortstop for North Division in All-Star Game in Grand Prairie, collecting two hits…also named to the American Association Postseason All-Star Team…ranked second among shortstops in fielding percentage (.962)…hit safely in 68 of 95 games…had 30 multi-hit games, including 11 three-hit games and two four-hit games…hit .341 at home, .280 on the road…had 11-game hitting streak from 8/8-8/19 (14-42, .333)…had 9-game hitting streak from 6/24-7/3 (12-36, .333)…hit game-ending home run on 8/24 in 11th inning vs. Lincoln…went 68 for 181 (.376) during a 49-game stretch from 5/24-7/16
2008
Windy City (Frontier/Ind.): Earned All-Star honors hitting .290 with 63 runs scored, 17 doubles, seven home runs, and 43 RBI in 95 games…played exclusively at 3B for the Thunder Bolts…six of seven home runs came on the road…collected 32 multi-hit games, including five 3-hit games…had nine multi-RBI games, including three 3-RBI games…cranked two home runs on 8/29 at Evansville while going 3-5 with two runs and three RBI for first career multi-home run game…scored a run in six consecutive games from 8/26-8/31 (nine total runs)…had 7-game hitting streak from 6/8-6/15 (12-27, .444, 5 RBI)…had 8-game hitting streak from 6/25-7/2 (12-34, .353, 6 R)…scored six runs in a 3-game series at Washington from 8/8-8/10…hit safely in 69 of 95 games played
2007
Windy City (Frontier/Ind.): First season of professional baseball, hit .302 with 64 runs scored, 19 doubles, seven home runs, and 53 RBI while earning All-Star honors as a true rookie…made professional debut on 5/23 vs. Rockford, going 0-3…picked up first career hit on 5/25 at Rockford…drew 39 walks while striking out just 65 times…appeared in 89 games, mostly at third base, but also saw time at second and first…scored a run in five straight games from 6/5-6/10 (eight total runs)…notched 27 multi-hit games, including four 3-hit games, and one 4-hit game…had 11 multi-RBI games, including three 3-RBI games, one 4-RBI game, and one 5-RBI game…went 4-6 with three runs scored, three doubles, a home run, and five RBI on 6/13 at Florence…drove in a run in five straight games from 7/21-7/26 (eight total RBI)…hit safely in 58 of 89 games played…had five multi-hit games in six game stretch from 7/31-8/5 (10-22, .455, 7 R)
Kevin Hooper on Josh: I am ecstatic to have Josh back for 2010 as our starting shortstop. He can also play second and third base, but shortstop is where he has made his home for our ballclub. Josh was our table setter at the top of the order last year and it is to be determined whether he will be hitting at the top or in the middle of the lineup for this upcoming season. Josh is a true ‘gamer’ to every sense of the word.
