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Steve Clevenger │ Chipola (FL) Junior College │ Youse's Maryland Orioles '05
Drafted: 2006 (Round 7, Overall Pick 209), Chicago Cubs
Current team: Iowa Cubs
Clevenger tore up Double-A pitching for the Tennessee Smokies of the Southern League before earning a promotion to AAA Iowa of the Pacific Coast League. For Tennessee, Clevenger hit .364 (28-for-77), with four doubles, three triples, and a home run. He drove in 10 runs and scored 12 in 26 games. He reached base at an impressive .443 clip and posted an OPS of .976. After the promotion, Clevenger cooled a bit, hitting .265/.309/.326 with 61 hits in 68 games, including 12 doubles and a triple. He drove in 26 runs for the Cubs and scored 21. The converted catcher walked 25 times to 39 strikeouts in 2009 and stole four of seven bases. Before the season, Clevenger was included Baseball America's list of the top NL prospects not to be included in their organizational Top 10 lists.
Clevenger played for the Mesa Solar Sox in the prestigious Arizona Fall League, where he has walked and scored a run in his first seven at-bats. The catcher hit a combined .298 for the Daytona Cubs of the Class-A Florida State League and the Tennessee Smokies of the Class-AA Southern League in 2008. Clevenger collected 89 hits for the Cubs, including 20 doubles and two home runs. He drove in 39 runs and scored 36 in 84 games, while swiping seven bases. For the Smokies, Clevenger went 22-for-89 (.247) with five doubles, a triple, a home run, 15 RBI, and five runs scored. Clevenger also walked 49 times and struck out just 51 times in 2008.
In 2007, Clevenger earned a promotion to the Daytona Cubs midway through the season. After hitting .373 with nine doubles and posting a .880 OPS in 22 for the Boise Hawks of the Class-A Short Season Northwest League, Clevenger hit .323 in 43 games for the Cubs. Clevenger collected 53 hits in 164 at-bats for the Cubs, including 8 doubles, a triple, and two home runs. He knocked in 24 runs and scored 21. Perhaps most importantly, the catcher struck out just five times (and just 11 times total in 2007).
In 2006, Steve hit .286 in 220 at-bats for the Hawks. He collected 63 hits, including eight doubles, a triple, and two home runs. He scored 35 runs and knocked in 21. He also stole five bases.
