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Weiss and Wood Named to Eastern League All-Star Team

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The Eastern League named their All-Star team for the 2016 season on Saturday afternoon and both Erich Weiss and Eric Wood were named to the team. The Altoona Curve sent four players to the mid-season All-Star game, though neither Weiss nor Wood were selected for that game.

Weiss is currently hitting .279/.352/.414 in 118 games, with 21 doubles, nine triples and six homer. He has played solid defense at second base, posting a career-best .979 fielding percentage and showing improved range. Weiss ranks just outside of the top ten in the league in hits and total bases. He’s third in the league in triples.

Wood is having a solid season, hitting .255/.348/.458 in 110 games. He is tied for sixth in the league with 16 homers, which leads Altoona. He has also excelled on defense this season with a .948 fielding percentage at third base, while displaying improved range. The 23-year-old Wood has an .806 OPS this season, which is well over the .608 mark he put up in his first season with Altoona.

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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