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Harold Ramirez Among Three Pirates’ Players Taking Home Weekly Awards

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The Pittsburgh Pirates had three minor league players take home weekly awards for their performances last week. Harold Ramirez was named the Florida State League player of the week, while Carlos Munoz won the Appalachian League award. Morgantown’s Jonathan Brubaker won the NYPL pitcher of the week.

Ramirez spent the previous week playing for Colombia in the Pan-Am games, so he came back on fire. He won the award despite not playing Monday, plus Bradenton had one game rained out and another ended early due to rain. Ramirez went 9-for-20, drove in eight runs and stole three bases. He is hitting .367/.414/.515 in 42 games this year.

Munoz drove in 14 runs and had four 3-hit games last week. He hit four homers, including three on Saturday night. He also scored ten runs this past week. Munoz’s streak actually goes back eight days, as he had four hits, three runs and a homer the previous Sunday.

Brubaker pitched a gem this week, retiring the first 17 batters on Saturday, before the 18th reached on a throwing error after a strikeout. He also pitched Monday and threw five shutout innings, so it was a strong week for the 2015 sixth round draft pick.

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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