Brown was called up July 28 after Shane Victorino went on the DL. With Werth moving to center, he played 15 games in right. The kid made one memorable throw and many more that were not. His routes were inconsistent. He was a work in progress.
Dom Brown needed to resume his minor league education with the Iron Pigs. Instead, inexplicably, he finished the season here and was on the postseason roster - ostensibly for his speed. He was 0-for-3 as a pinch-hitter and scored one run as a pinch-runner. In other words, he was an ornament.
Brown didn't need to be here all that time collecting cobwebs and attaching a .210 average to his previously solid resume. He didn't need to expose flaws that could have been quietly corrected in a minor league setting. He didn't need to learn that his sky-diver-hooking-onto-the-jump-cable stance would be an invitation to major league pitchers to pound him up and in while denying him the down-and-in fastballs he was trolling for.
Well, Dom went to Santo Domingo Nov. 15 to play for the defending Dominican Winter League champion Leones del Escogido. Manager Ken Oberkfell had also led a beefed-up version of the Leones to the prestigious Caribbean Series title.
But Dom was too rusty to play when he arrived on the 15th and didn't make his first start until the 19th.
Oberkfell batted him in the No. 3 hole, befitting of a player rated the game's No. 1 prospect after both Braves prodigy Jason Heyward and Marlins slugger Mike Stanton were promoted to the majors.
