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Winter Leagues: Tony Sanchez Headed to the Dominican

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Catcher Tony Sanchez is leaving for the Dominican on Wednesday, going there to play for Toros del Este. He played some first base late in the season this year, but he will go to the Dominican strictly to play catcher. He should probably see action in about 5-7 days. Last year when Andrew Lambo joined his Venezuelan team a few weeks after the season started, he took five days before he played his first game. Sanchez batted .235/.337/.422 in 81 games with Indianapolis this year and .267/.300/.360 in 26 games for the Pirates.

In the Dominican, Willy Garcia had two big games in the previous two days, but he went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts on Tuesday night.

Mel Rojas Jr. went 1-for-4 with a double, walk and run scored. The double was his fourth of the season.  He is hitting .246 in 19 games with 13 runs scored.

In Puerto Rico, Bryton Trepagnier pitched two scoreless innings in his third game of the year, giving up one hit and picking up two strikeouts. In his first two appearances combined, he allowed four runs on five hits and three walks in four innings.

In Mexico, Felipe Gonzalez threw 1.1 scoreless innings. He gave up a single and didn’t walk or strikeout anyone. Gonzalez lowered his ERA to 3.77 in 14.1 innings.

The winter season began in Colombia in the last few days. Both Tito Polo and Harold Ramirez will play in the league. The league hasn’t posted any stats from the first three days, so there isn’t much info to go on yet. Polo started his team’s last game in right field.

Earlier in the off-season, we were mentioning Dean Anna daily because he was tearing up the Mexican League. Anna signed as a free agent with the St Louis Cardinals on Tuesday. He hit .322/.487/.390 in 17 games in Mexico, but hasn’t played since October 29th.

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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