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Winter Leagues: Ortiz Continues Hot Streak, Boscan Shutting Down for Winter

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In Venezuela on Sunday, Elias Diaz went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts. He is hitting .250/.327/.391 in 26 games.

Jhondaniel Medina recorded five outs while facing four batters. He inherited a runner(Junior Sosa), who was caught stealing. Medina picked up two strikeouts. In 12 appearances, he has allowed two runs over 11.2 innings, but he has issued nine walks.

A.J. Morris allowed one run over three innings, giving up four hits and one walk, with two strikeouts. He has a 3.25 ERA in 36 innings, with a 1.69 WHIP and 25 strikeouts. Morris is still a free agent.

Jose Osuna had his suspension reduced from six games to three games and began serving it on Sunday. If you missed it from yesterday, we broke down the quality of pitchers he has homered off of this winter. The article has video for eight of his nine homers.

Wilfredo Boscan announced that he will shut things down once the regular season ends this winter. His team isn’t going to make the playoffs, but the players from the teams eliminated from the playoffs can be drafted by one of the playoff teams. Boscan announced that he would rather take the time off to rest since he already has a contract for the 2016 season. He could get two more starts before shutting it down depending on how the rotation plays out. The regular season in Venezuela ends December 29th.

In the Dominican, Gustavo Nunez(2B) and Pedro Florimon made up the double play combo for Estrellas de Oriente. Nunez batted lead-off and went 1-for-5 with two runs and an RBI. Florimon went 1-for-2 with an RBI before leaving for a pinch-hitter in the seventh inning.

Wilkin Castillo went 0-for-2 with a sacrifice bunt. He has been playing winter ball since the season started in early October, but he has played just nine games, going 3-for-25 at the plate.

In Puerto Rico, Danny Ortiz has been on a hot streak for two weeks now. He went 3-for-4 with a run scored on Sunday, giving him a 1.006 OPS in his last ten games. Before this streak started, Ortiz was next to last in OPS, right under the .500 mark. He has raised that to .621 through 36 games, which is just below league average in a very pitcher-friendly league. The highest teams OPS is .660, while the lowest team has a .596 OPS.

In Mexico, Carlos Munoz went 0-for-3 with a walk, run scored and a strikeout. He has a .249/.353/.399 slash line in 55 games.

In Australia, I missed Sam Street’s appearances from Friday, then he went again on Sunday. In the first game, he went one shutout inning, allowing two hits, while striking out two batters. On Sunday he threw 2.1 scoreless innings, giving up two hits, with no walks or strikeouts. In four appearances this winter, he has allowed one run over 6.2 innings, surrendering eight hits and three walks, with three strikeouts.

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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