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Winter Leagues: Tsung-Che Cheng is Off to a Quick Start in Puerto Rico

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Slow day around winter ball, as the leagues in Colombia and the Dominican were off, plus there are no more Pittsburgh Pirates playing in Venezuela, and the Sydney Blue Sox (aka Pirates south) don’t start their three-day weekend of games until today. We still have some action from Puerto Rico, as well as two players from Mexico. Here’s the recap.

In Puerto Rico, Tsung-Che Cheng went 1-for-4 with a triple, two runs, two RBIs, a walk and his first stolen base. The 21-year-old shortstop has a .313 average and a .921 OPS in five games.

Will Matthiessen made his first start (as the DH) and he went 0-for-4 with a walk and a run scored.

Newly-acquired Josh Palacios went 1-for-3 with a double and a walk. He has a .167 average and a .489 OPS in five games.

In Mexico, Fabricio Macias went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts. He’s hitting .248 with a .648 OPS in 44 games.

Denny Roman retired all three batters he faced in his one inning of work, picking up one strikeout. He has thrown 6.2 scoreless innings over nine appearances.

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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