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Winter Leagues: Alen Hanson Remains Out Due to Wrist Injury

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On Wednesday night in Venezuela, Jose Osuna went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts. That dropped him down to a .239 average and a .685 OPS. He is third in the league with 31 strikeouts.

Elvis Escobar singled as a pinch-hitter in the eighth inning, then finished the game in right field. He was thrown out trying to steal by former Pirate minor leaguer Francisco Diaz. After a prolonged slump, Escobar has gone 6-for-17 with three doubles in his last five games.

In the Dominican, Willy Garcia went 0-for-3 with a walk. He started for the second game in a row, after getting just 14 plate appearances during the first month of the season. He was 1-for-5 with three strikeouts on Tuesday.

Alen Hanson remains out of the lineup due to a wrist injury according to his team in the Dominican. He is listed as day-to-day. Hanson joined his team on November 11th and played four days in a row, going 1-for-15 at the plate. During that fourth game, he left for a defensive replacement in the sixth inning and has not returned to action. He had two plays in the field during the fifth inning and committed an error, so it’s possible he got hurt on one of those plays.

In Australia on Thursday, Sam Kennelly went 0-for-4, making his fifth straight start at third base to open the season. He is 3-for-19 with a walk and an RBI.

Happy Thanksgiving.

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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