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Winter Leagues: Offense is Starting to Pick Up for Jose Osuna

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In the Dominican, Eric Wood started in left field again and he went 0-for-3, with a walk, strikeout and run scored. Wood is hitting .226 through ten games, though he has drawn seven walks, which gives him a .385 OBP.

In Venezuela, Elias Diaz caught all ten innings in his team’s 2-1 loss. He went 1-for-4 with a single at the plate, and runners were successful on both stolen base attempts against him.  Diaz is 1-for-5 in throwing out runners, and he’s hitting .310/.323/.379 through eight games.

Jose Osuna went 1-for-3 with a single and a walk. After drawing a walk in the tenth inning, he left for a pinch-runner, which happened to be former Pirate Junior Sosa. Osuna has a five-game hitting streak and he’s reached base safely in nine of his last ten games. Through 43 games, he has a .263/.335/.388 slash line, with 11 doubles and three homers.

In Mexico, Carlos Munoz played in both games of a doubleheader, starting at first base in game one and serving as the designated hitter in the nightcap. Munoz went 0-for-3 in game one, reaching base via hit-by-pitch. He also committed his first error of the season. In the second game, he went 0-for-2 with a sacrifice fly and two strikeouts. Munoz is hitting .163 through 32 games and still hasn’t scored a run this winter.

In Australia, Sam Kennelly played both games of a doubleheader at third base. He went a combined 1-for-6, with a walk and a run scored. He is hitting .161/.297/.161 through 11 games.

In Colombia, Henrry Rosario went 1-for-3 with an RBI triple in the first game of a doubleheader, then 0-for-3 with a strikeout in the second contest. He is hitting .266/.405/.345 through 81 plate appearances.

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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