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Jose Osuna Promoted to Indianapolis

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The Pittsburgh Pirates have promoted 1B/OF Jose Osuna to Indianapolis according to Cory Giger of the Altoona Mirror. This is an interesting move because there doesn’t seem to be an opening for Osuna unless someone else from Indianapolis moves up or out. He could be replacing Adam Frazier, who was playing a lot of left field, but Indianapolis seems to have more solid players than playing time already, something they have dealt with all season.

He has been playing first base most of the season until Edwin Espinal started tearing the cover off the ball in June. Osuna moved to left field, then played some right field as well, while also going back to first base occasionally. His defense is best at first base, but he isn’t lost in the outfield and has a very strong arm.

Osuna is hitting .271/.329/.438 this season in 69 games. Last year in 85 games with Altoona he put up a very similar .288/.327/.437 slash line. He reaches minor league free agency at the end of this season, so the Pirates might want to see what he can do at the higher level. If you followed all of the winter league articles this year, you know that Osuna was basically one of the best hitters in Venezuela throughout the entire season, so he has faced Triple-A quality pitching recently and succeeded.

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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