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Tomas Telis Gets Big League Promotion

Catcher 11th Former 'Dad to Majors in 2014
By
August 25, 2014

Tomas Telis, a member of the 2011 Hickory Crawdads team, became the 130th former player to receive a major league call-up when the Texas Rangers purchased his contract from AAA Round Rock on Monday.

The native of El Tigre, Anzoategui, Venezuela signed with the Rangers as an international free agent in 2007. The SAL all-star batted .297 with 28 doubles, 11 homers and 69 RBI in 115 games with Hickory. He has since moved up through the Rangers chain and played this season at AA Frisco and AAA Round Rock. Overall in 2014, he is hitting .318 with 23 doubles, four triples, five homers and 50 RBI.

Promotion by the numbers:

*Telis is the 130th former Crawdad to play in the majors.

*He is the sixth member of the 2011 team to go on to the majors (Justin Grimm, Roman Mendez, Jurickson Profar, Ben Rowen, Nick Tepesch)

*He is the 13th former Crawdads catcher to go on to the majors (Humberto Cota, Ryan Doumit, Chris Heintz, J.R. House, Mark Johnson, Steve Lerud, Josh Paul, Ronny Paulino, Nerio Rodriguez, Chris Tremie, Neil Walker, Rico Washington). He is the first former Crawdads catcher since Steve Lerud played with the 2006 squad to make the majors.

*He is the 11th former Crawdads player to debut in majors in 2014 (tied for 2012 and 2004 for second most mlb promotions in a season. The 2005 season had 14 first-time major leaguers.) (Nick Martinez, Luis Sardinas, Neil Ramirez, Rougned Odor, Jamie Romak, Ben Rowen, Roman Mendez, Matt West, Phil Klein, Alex Claudio).

*He is the 24th former Crawdads player to play for Texas, 18 of those under the current affiliation.

*He is the 24th player under the current affiliation with the Rangers to go on to the majors.

*He is the 20th international free agent signee (out of 145) to come to Hickory and later play in the majors.

*He is the 97th player (out of 500) to play one season in Hickory and later play in the majors.

 *He is the 11th Venezuelan-born player to play in Hickory and later play in the majors. (Jose Castillo, Wilmer Font, Rougned Odor, Magglio Ordonez, Joseph Ortiz, Martin Perez, Liu Rodriguez, Romulo Sanchez, Danny Sandoval, Luis Sardinas)