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Winter Leagues: Elias Diaz Makes Possible Winter Finale Count

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In Venezuela on Tuesday, Elias Diaz possibly played his last game of the winter and he made it count. He is now off to the Rookie Career Development Program that is being held in Washingon DC, which runs through Sunday. His team could be eliminated from the playoffs before he returns to play. Diaz went 3-for-6 in the extra inning win, collecting two doubles, scoring twice and driving in two runs. He was 1-for-8 in the first two games of the playoffs.

Jose Osuna didn’t quite have the night that Diaz had, but he still had a pretty good game. Osuna went 3-for-6 with a double and a run scored. He was 1-for-9 in the first two games. I included a defensive play from Osuna at first base because it was the only video posted for a Pirates’ player last night.

Jorge Rondon allowed a run on two hits and a walk in his first playoff appearance. He picked up two outs, including the last out of the fifth inning, stranding an inherited runner in the process. Rondon was facing Osuna and Diaz’s team, but he did not face either of them in this game.

He signed with the Marlins earlier this off-season, but Junior Sosa had a night worth mentioning. He picked up five hits and drove in three runs on Tuesday, including an extra inning walk-off single.

In the Dominican, Gustavo Nunez went 0-for-3, giving him a .240 average in the playoffs.

Wilkin Castillo went 2-for-4, scoring twice and driving in two runs. He is 9-for-29 in the playoffs. Castillo had a total of 13 hits this year between the regular season with Indianapolis and the winter regular season.

In Puerto Rico, Danny Ortiz went 1-for-3 in his team’s 2-0 win. He is 2-for-10 in the first three games of the playoffs, which have all been low scoring games, with a total of six runs scored between both teams.

In Mexico, Carlos Munoz went 0-for-2 with a walk and a strikeout before leaving for a pinch-hitter in the ninth, taking away his chance to face Daniel Moskos with the game on the line. Munoz had three hits in the second game of the playoffs and none in the other three 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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