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Prospect Highlights: Double From Gregory Polanco, Home Run By Stetson Allie

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In yesterday’s 6-5 loss to Gwinnett, Gregory Polanco continued his incredible season, collecting three hits, including the double in the video below. Polanco has proven he can hit in any situation. He has a .396 average vs right-handed pitchers and the same .396 mark in road games. He’s hitting .373 against lefties and .380 at home. With runners on base, he is hitting .455, but if you put those runners in scoring position, his average goes up to .490…yes, .490!

Polanco leads the International League in runs, hits, triples, RBIs, total bases, batting average, OBP, slugging percentage and of course, OPS. His OPS is .116 higher than second place in the league. That difference is bigger than the difference between 2nd and 14th place. Basically, he is good. The video below shows off that sweet left-handed swing that will be coming to Pittsburgh in about three weeks.

Stetson Allie hit his eighth homer of the season on Saturday. He has played 18 home games and 18 road games this year, but this homer was his seventh at home. His only road homer came Tuesday in Binghamton. Allie has a five game hitting streak going and he has reached base in seven straight.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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