Mustangs in the Pros: August 2025 Edition
7/31/2025 1:15:00 PM | Baseball
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Brooks Lee of the Minnesota Twins drove in two runs with a walk-off single Monday night and hit multiple home runs in a Major League game for the first time in his career Tuesday night while Seattle Mariners right-hander Bryan Woo sought his ninth victory of the season on Wednesday.
Another right-hander, Taylor Dollard, continues his remarkable comeback from Tommy John surgery, which resulted in a 25-month layoff, while southpaw Andrew Alvarez finally earned his first win after an 0-7 start. Outfielder Nick Torres continues his torrid hitting in the Mexican League.
Those are the highlights of former Cal Poly baseball players now in the professional ranks over the month of July.
Lee produced his third walk-off hit of the year Monday night with his one-out single following a 90-minute rain delay, lifting the Twins to a 5-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox. That hit followed Lee’s walk-off single against Kansas City on May 24 and his squeeze bunt for the winning run versus Tampa Bay on July 5.
Tuesday night, Lee replaced Carlos Correa (migraine) at shortstop in the third inning and responded with his first multiple home runs in a single game — two-run blasts in both the seventh and ninth innings. He also singled to knock in another run in the fifth, driving in all five Minnesota runs in an 8-5 loss to the Red Sox.
Lee, who hit two home runs in a Triple-A game for St. Paul on June 20, 2024, against Toledo, became the sixth Twins player to hit home runs from both sides of the plate in franchise history.
He started his second season in the Majors 2-for-19 (.105), put together a 19-game hitting streak (25-for-79, .316) before Milwaukee snapped the run June 21, followed with six hits in his next two games and currently sports a .252 average with 10 doubles, 10 home runs and 43 RBIs in 89 games.
Lee hit .348 in June with five doubles, four home runs and 16 RBIs. He also had a five-RBI game against Cincinnati in September 2024.
Brooks Lee gets it done in the bottom of the 9th! #Walkoff pic.twitter.com/IqpuphH1ZX
— MLB (@MLB) July 29, 2025
Woo, who pitched in his first All-Star Game on July 15 in Atlanta, fell to 8-6 with a 3.11 ERA on Wednesday at Sutter Health Park (formerly Raley Field) in West Sacramento, just 82 miles from his hometown of Alameda. He allowed five runs and eight hits with six strikeouts over 6 1/3 innings. The Athletics won 5-4.
Woo has struck out 127 batters while walking just 25 over 133 innings (21 starts). He entered Wednesday’s game as one of two pitchers in the Majors with a sub-3.00 ERA, 100-plus strikeouts and 25 or fewer walks this season. The other is reigning American League Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal of the Detroit Tigers, who played college ball at Seattle University.
Woo retired the side in order in the third inning of the All-Star Game, striking out Ronald Acuna Jr. and inducing Ketel Marte to ground out to second base and Pete Alonso to line out to first base. He is seventh in the Majors in WHIP (0.97), 14th in opponents’ batting average (.212), 21st in ERA (3.11) and eighth in innings pitched (133).
List of @Mariners with 120+ strikeouts, 25-or-fewer walks, and a sub-3.00 ERA across their first 20 starts of a season:
— Mariners PR (@MarinersPR) July 30, 2025
Félix Hernández (2014)
Logan Gilbert (2024)
Bryan Woo (2025)
Dollard recorded his longest outing on the mound this season last Friday night, going six innings and allowing one run and four hits with no walks and four strikeouts for the win in a 7-1 decision against Spokane.
He is 2-1 with a 1.98 ERA in six starts and one relief appearance at Everett, notching 20 strikeouts over 27 1/3 innings.
Dollard posted a 16-2 record and 2.25 ERA with the Arkansas Travelers in the Texas League in 2022, striking out 131 batters over 144 innings. In 2023, however, he pitched in just three games for the Triple-A Tacoma Raniers before he was diagnosed with an elbow injury that required surgery.
Off to an 0-7 start this season, Alvarez entered the win column Tuesday night with six scoreless innings for Triple-A Rochester in a lopsided 16-1 win over Charlotte. Alvarez allowed just two hits and no walks, matching his season high for strikeouts with seven.
Alvarez had left several games earlier this season with a lead only to end up with a no-decision due to late comebacks by the opposition. He sports a 4.38 ERA with 82 strikeouts in 98 2/3 innings (20 starts).
The return.
— Everett AquaSox (@EverettAquaSox) June 12, 2025
Congratulations to Taylor Dollard for continuing his journey back from a torn labrum, throwing 2.1 hitless innings last night in his first AquaSox appearance since 2021. pic.twitter.com/37T3EL5qDn
2810 RPM on this slider from Andrew Alvarez last night??
— Red Wings Communications (@RedWingsPR) June 12, 2025
The southpaw has turned in a total of 61.0 innings this season, tied for second-most among International League lefties. pic.twitter.com/0Y8QnXDU2f
Cal Poly’s third Major Leaguer this season, relief pitcher Justin Bruihl, has been called up by Toronto three times before he was sent back to Triple-A Buffalo on Tuesday.
In 11 games with the Blue Jays, Bruihl has no decisions and a 6.48 ERA, earning 11 strikeouts over 8 1/3 innings. In 27 appearances on the mound at Buffalo, he is 3-3 with a 3.56 ERA and three saves.
Torres owns a .334 batting average for Laguna Union in the Mexican League and is first in the league in doubles (29) and third in home runs (25). The 32-year-old Torres also is 12th in RBIs with 69 and has 100 hits in 78 games.
Three members of the 2025 Mustangs have signed contracts but have yet to play any games professionally.
Infielder Zach Daudet (10th round, Houston Astros) signed his contract July 23 while pitcher Luke Kovach (19th round, Toronto Blue Jays) inked his deal July 18. They have not yet been assigned to any team.
Catcher Jack Collins signed an undrafted free agent contract with the Texas Rangers on July 22 and has been assigned to the Arizona Complex League’s Rangers, where he has yet to play a game.
Updates on other Mustangs in professional baseball …
• Pitcher Bryce Warrecker is 1-0 with a 1.70 ERA for the Hudson Valley Renegades. He gave up just one earned run in his first 11 appearances on the mound and did not allow any earned runs in 22 of his first 24 relief appearances. He has three saves and 45 strikeouts over 42 1/3 innings, and earned his win July 6 with two scoreless innings versus Brooklyn.
• Derek True is 2-5 with a 5.59 ERA and 35 strikeouts over 37 innings for the Asheville Tourists. After a stint on the injury list and one rehab start, In his last five starts for Asheville, True has suffered three losses and a pair of no-decisions.
• Steven Brooks is 2-6 with a 5.74 ERA in 15 starts for Salem. He has 58 strikeouts in 58 innings and earned his wins against Fredericksburg on April 9 and Hickory on April 22, both going five innings on the mound.
• Myles Emmerson is hitting .223 in 63 games for the Rocket City Trash Pandas. He has 13 multiple-hit games (all two hits) and was 6-for-15 in a five-game hitting streak July 13-24.
• Ryan Stafford is hitting .178 at Aberdeen with 11 doubles, 23 RBIs and 19 steals in 77 games. Stafford, who has nine multiple-hit games (all two hits), hit .246 in April but .117 in May, .173 in June and .176 in July.
• Jake Steels compiled a .150 average in 43 games at Augusta before he was promoted to Rome on July 10. That move has produced better numbers for the outfielder as he is hitting .300 in 10 games (9-for-30) with a double and three RBIs.
• Spencer Howard has not pitched for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in Japan’s Nippon Professional League since July 1. Howard is 4-0 with a 1.53 ERA and 27 strikeouts over 35 1/3 innings (six starts).
• In Independent League play, Erich Uelmen is 2-2 with a 3.09 ERA for the High Point Rockers in the Atlantic League. In nine starts, Uelmen has 31 strikeouts over 40 2/3 innings with 10 walks. After a seven-week stint on the injury list, Uelmen was activated July 29 and pitched 3 2/3 innings at Lexington, allowing six runs (two earned) and five hits with two walks and four strikeouts.
Jason Franks is 1-2 with a 4.50 ERA and one save for the Kalispell (Mont.)-based Glacier Range Riders of the Pioneer League. Franks has appeared in 25 games, all in relief, with 33 strikeouts over 26 innings. His lone win of the year was in his debut with the club on May 22 against the Great Falls Voyagers, pitching 1 2/3 innings with one run, three hits and five strikeouts.
Pitchers Drew Thorpe and Jakob Wright are sidelined with injuries.
