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Prospect Highlights: Big Hit From Lambo, Garcia Homers Again

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Yesterday, we took a good look at Willy Garcia and his current hot streak despite poor plate patience and high strikeouts. On Friday, he continued that streak in a big way, hitting his 16th homer, while also adding two doubles. The home run tied him for the most among Pirates’ minor league players, pulling him even with JaCoby Jones. The two doubles gave him 24 on the year, one behind Chris McGuiness in the organization. Garcia extended his hit streak to 12 games. Here is the home run from last night.

Andrew Lambo singled home two runs during a 6-4 victory by Indianapolis on Thursday afternoon. His home run on Wednesday broke a 3-for-24 slump and he carried that into Thursday, collecting three hits. In 40 games for Indianapolis this season, Lambo has a .338/.405/.563 slash line. In 14 games since returning from his thumb injury, he has a .912 OPS. Last year during his breakout season, he had an OPS of .922 between Altoona and Indianapolis, so he has actually improved on those numbers this year. He looks to be positioning himself to be a September call-up, giving the Pirates a strong lefty bat on the bench for their playoff run.

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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