Cody Promoted to Down East

Hickory, NC- The Texas Rangers announced today that Hickory Crawdads right-handed pitcher Kyle Cody has been promoted to the Down East Wood Ducks (Class A Advanced).

Cody, 22, has been one of the best starting pitchers in the South Atlantic League ranking in the top 10 in ERA (2.83 - 7^th), strikeouts (101-5^th) and average against (.218-5^th).
A 6^th round selection by the Rangers in the 2016 Draft out of University of Kentucky, Cody earned SAL Pitcher of the Week honors for his performance on June 17^th (8 IP,0 ER, 1 H, 1 BB, 8 K). Since that start, Cody has been dominant, allowing only 4 earned runs on 21 hits in 43.2 innings. He issued just 13 walks and struck out 58 batters in that span, good for a 0.79 WHIP, 0.83 ERA and 12.1 K/9 ratio. The Chippewa Falls, WI native allowed just 4 home runs all season and struck out a career-high 11 batters in his final start with the 'Dads on July 30^th.
Cody will join fellow 2017 Crawdads Tyler Ferguson, Jonathan Hernández, Preston Scott, Yanio Perez, Ti'Quan Forbes, and Carlos Garay in Down East.
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