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Winter Leagues: Jose Osuna Surpasses Last Year’s Hit Total

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In Mexico on Sunday, Harold Ramirez played his second winter game, once again playing left field and batting third. He went 1-for-4 with a double in his team’s 6-4 loss, leaving him 2-for-9 so far this season.

Carlos Munoz was the DH again and batted sixth. In his first game, he was pinch-hit for early, drawing a walk and striking out before being replaced. He went 0-for-2 on Sunday, then walked in the seventh. He was removed at that point for a pinch-runner.

Sebastian Valle is the only player from the Pirates’ system in the Mexican League, who isn’t on Mazatlan. He went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts on Sunday. He is 1-for-8 in two games at the plate, and he’s 2-for-3 in throwing out potential base stealers.

In Venezuela on Sunday, three Pirates played in the Bravos/Cardenales games. Jose Osuna picked up his fourth hit of the season, topping his total from each of his first two winters. He started at first base for the second straight night and went 1-for-4 with his first double. Osuna got into 11 games last year in Venezuela, going 3-for-26 at the plate. He had three hits in eight games during his first year of winter ball over the 2013-14 off-season.

Junior Sosa started in center field and went 0-for-2 before being pinch-hit for in the sixth inning. For the Cardenales, Elvis Escobar came off the bench as a pinch-hitter in the eighth inning and struck out. He finished the game in center field. Escobar is 1-for-5 in three games.

Gorkys Hernandez went 1-for-3 with a single and a sacrifice bunt. He is 6-for-17 in five games.

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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