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Francisco Acuna Named to Appalachian League All-Star Team

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He was in the GCL last year, but SS Francisco Acuna seems like a new player this year

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The Appalachian League named their season All-Star team on Friday night and Francisco Acuna of the Bristol Pirates was named as the second baseman on the squad.

Acuna is batting .301/.368/.446 through 49 games this year. He has 19 doubles and nine stolen bases. He leads the league in doubles, ranks seventh in average and tenth in stolen bases. Acuna struggled last year in the GCL, where he put up a .593 OPS in 36 games, but he held his own this off-season in the Colombia Winter League, which is a higher level of play than the Appalachian League.

It’s interesting that they named him as the second baseman because he’s only played four games at second base this year and a total of 25 games there during his three-year career. The 19-year-old Acuna has made 38 starts at shortstop this season, while also seeing time at third base and left field.

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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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