• Drafted with the 198th overall pick of the 2007 MLB Draft, the tenth of Atlanta’s first 25 picks to come from the state of Georgia
• Played in 113 consecutive games in college before being sidelined May, 2007 with facial fractures suffered in a game

• Likes the daylight: played 27 day games to 96 night games, but hit .316 under the sun compared with .236 under the lights
• Reached on hits in two at-bats as a pinch hitter, 7/9 vs. Greensboro and 8/31 vs. Columbus
• Got most of his at-bats in the second and fifth spots in the lineup in Rome, hitting .241 in the two hole and .232 as the five hitter
• Recorded a season-high five hits in a 5-7 performance during a Braves 8-7 13-inning loss to the Augusta GreenJackets, scoring one run and driving in another and lifting his average from .230 to .254
• Registered 22 multi-hit games, including five games with three hits or more
• Broke out of an early season slump by going 7-14 in the first three games of a six-game hitting streak that would eventually take his average from .050 to .234

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