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Winter Leagues: Polanco Leads Team to Win Over Contreras

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In the Dominican on Tuesday night, Gregory Polanco went 1-for-3 with a walk, run scored and RBI in his team’s 5-1 win. Both the walk and single came off Jose Contreras, who walked and got a fly ball out from Polanco last time they faced each other a month ago. Polanco is hitting .328 in 18 games, with 15 runs scored, 15 RBI’s and 14 walks. He ranks second in the DWL with a 1.041 OPS.

Matt Hague played for the first time in six days and went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts. He is now hitting .280 with two homers and seven RBI’s in 50 AB’s over 13 games.

In Puerto Rico, Ivan De Jesus Jr went 0-for-2 with two walks, a run scored and a stolen base. He had some trouble in the field, making his first two errors of the season.

In Mexico, Ali Solis went 1-for-3 with a single and a walk. He falls just short in plate appearances for qualifying for league leaders, but his .879 OPS would place him eighth in the Mexican League if he did qualify. That’s a huge improvement over last Winter when he had a .469 OPS in 30 games.

Andrew Lambo will join his Cardenales de Lara team in Venezuela later this week. The same team has also added Elvis Escobar to the roster. The 19-year-old Escobar hit .268 with 23 RBI’s in 183 AB’s for Jamestown this season.

In the Colombian League, Harold Ramirez collected two hits in six AB’s. Through four games, he is 4-for-12 with two walks and HBP.

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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