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Winter Leagues: Rodolfo Castro Leads the League in Hitting

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Action still hasn’t picked up in winter ball for Pittsburgh Pirates players, so here’s the limited update from Tuesday night.

In the Dominican, Rodolfo Castro went 0-for-2 with two walks. He’s hitting .261/.471/.478 in eight games and his .949 OPS leads the league.

Christian Bethancourt went 0-for-4, dropping him to a .125 average. He reached minor league free agency on Monday, but we will still have quick updates for him until he signs elsewhere. If he re-signs with the Pirates, then obviously he will stay here in the updates.

In Puerto Rico, Bligh Madris went 1-for-3 with a double, walk and run scored. He’s 4-for-10 in three games.

Ethan Paul went 0-for-1 with two walks. He was thrown out trying to steal, and he committed an error. He’s still looking for his first hit of the winter season.

Michael Perez is also playing in Puerto Rico this winter. The Pirates backup catcher went 0-for-5 in his season debut over the weekend. He went 1-for-4 with a run scored on Tuesday.

In Mexico, Randy Romero went 2-for-2 with a triple, walk and HBP, reaching in all four plate appearances. He’s batting .313/.394/.365 in 30 games.

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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