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Three Pirates Earn Pitcher of the Week Honors

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The Pittsburgh Pirates received some strong pitching performances throughout the minors last week. That landed them three Pitcher of the Week award winners. Alex McRae won the International League award. Cody Bolton won the Florida State League award, and Brad Case won the South Atlantic League award.

McRae is the second Indianapolis winner in a row, following Dario Agrazal, who won last week. McRae pitched 6.2 shutout innings, allowing just one hit and two walks, with five strikeouts. Agrazal actually had a higher Game Score (79 to 75 for McRae) in his only start last week, giving up one run over eight innings, on three hits and no walks, with seven strikeouts.

Bolton (pictured) pitched seven shutout innings, on three hits, with no walks and seven strikeouts. He leads the FSL in ERA and WHIP (both 0.77) and hasn’t allowed more than one run in any start.

Case had the best game of the week, throwing seven shutout innings on one hit, which was a bloop single on an awkward swing to lead-off the seventh inning. He didn’t walk anyone and struck out seven batters.

All three players were mentioned in our top performers article this morning, with Case taking our Player of the Week honors.

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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