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Gregory Polanco Named to Baseball America’s April All-Prospect Team

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Baseball America has announced their All-Prospect Team for the month of April and Gregory Polanco was named as one of the three outfielders on the team. Players are chosen based on their April performance and the team consists of just prospects. Polanco is the only Pittsburgh Pirates representative that BA chose for the squad. He was named as our own Player of the Month earlier this week.

Polanco batted .400 in 24 April games, with four homers, four stolen bases and a 1.089 OPS. He currently leads the International League in batting average, runs scored, total bases, OBP and RBIs, plus he is second in the league in both slugging percentage and OPS.

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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