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Hanson, Diaz and Wood Named to International League All-Star Team

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The International League announced the rosters for the July 15th All-Star game and three Indianapolis Indians players are on the team. They will be represented by second baseman Alen Hanson, catcher Elias Diaz and closer Blake Wood.

Hanson is hitting .292/.335/.442 in 63 games this season. He returned yesterday from missing two weeks with a hand injury and had three hits, including a home run, plus stole two bases. Hanson has eight triples, five homers and 19 stolen bases.

Diaz isn’t hitting like last year when he dominated the Eastern League and received a late season promotion to Indianapolis, but he is still having a good season, especially on defense. He is hitting .268/.333/.376 in 60 games, splitting his time between catching and DH. He has a .988 fielding % and has thrown out 27% of base runners.

Blake Wood has a 3.31 ERA and 20 saves in 22 opportunities. In 32.2 innings, he has 38 strikeouts. He leads the International League in saves.

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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