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Winter Leagues: Tsung-Che Cheng Moves Up Among the Colombian League Leaders in Batting

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Here’s a look at action from around winter ball for the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday.

In Colombia, Francisco Acuna played in one of the two winter games played on Monday and he went 1-for-4 with a single. On Tuesday night, he went 1-for-3 with a double, hit-by-pitch and a stolen base. He’s now hitting .174/.309/.196 in 46 at-bats.

Tsung-Che Cheng went 2-for-3 with a triple, single, two walks and three runs scored. In 20 games, he is batting .329/.418/.459 with 20 runs scored. He is fifth in the league in average, seventh in runs and first with four triples.

In Mexico, Randy Romero had an 0-for-4 night. He is now hitting .292 with a .685 OPS in 65 games. His team’s season ends on Thursday.

I don’t know if his winter is over, but Jared Oliva was not on the active roster for Tuesday night. He’s batting .235 with a .644 OPS in 28 games.

The league in Puerto Rico starts back up on Wednesday night after more than a week off due to a COVID outbreak. Pirates catcher Roberto Perez will be in action starting on Sunday.

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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