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Winter Leagues: Rodriguez Continues to Impress on the Mound; Suchy Extends On Base Streak

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One night after helping his team to a 4-3 win in the Venezuelan league playoff opener, Elvis Escobar went 2-for-4 and drove in two runs in his team’s 8-0 victory. He went 0-for-4 in the first game, but walked twice and scored each time, accounting for half of his team’s runs.

Engelb Vielma went 1-for-4 with a single last night. He went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI in his playoff opener on Tuesday night.

In the Dominican, Pablo Reyes saw his first playoff action. He pinch-hit in the sixth inning of a one-sided deficit and ended up batting three times. He flew out, picked up a sacrifice fly, walked and scored a run. Reyes played second base for the final three innings. His team looked like a Pirates reunion late in the game with Reyes joined by Matt Hague, Ronny Paulino, Willy Garcia, Eury Perez and Wilkin Castillo in the lineup.

Richard Rodriguez continued his streak of appearances without an earned run, pitching a shutout inning on Wednesday night. He retired all three batters he faced, one by strikeout. Rodriguez has gone 15 straight games without an earned run and he has walked just two batters all winter. He surrendered a total of ten earned runs over his first 11 appearances this winter, so he really turned things around right before he signed with the Pirates early last month.

Anderson Feliz went 2-for-3 with a walk and a run scored. He is 6-for-21 through five playoff games. Surprisingly, the 25-year-old switch-hitter, who can play multiple positions, is still looking for a free agent deal after putting up a .786 OPS during the regular season in a league that combined for a .670 OPS.

In Australia on Thursday, Michael Suchy went 0-for-3 with a walk. That snapped his ten-game hit streak, but he still has a 12-game on base streak going. He is hitting .261/.356/.466 in 24 games.

Robbie Glendinning went 2-for-5 with a run scored and two stolen bases. He has a .971 OPS through his first five games. Glendinning has handled all 30 chances at shortstop cleanly so far.

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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