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AFL Recap: Peoria Opens Their Season with a Victory

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The Arizona Fall League started on Wednesday night. We posted a preview of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the league earlier in the day. The Peoria Javelinas opened their season with a 10-6 win over Salt River.

Jared Oliva started in left field and batted third. He went 1-for-4 with a double, walk and two runs scored. Oliva also grounded out twice and struck out once.

Oneil Cruz was at shortstop and he batted fifth. He went 1-for-5 with an RBI single and a run scored off of Shane Baz, who got touched up for six runs (plus two inherited runs scored) in 1.2 innings. Cruz had two strikeouts and committed a first inning error that led to four unearned runs.

Here’s the Cruz hit off of Baz…

Blake Cederlind had a rough debut, looking more like the pre-2019 version of himself. He was hitting 100 MPH consistently this year, but tonight he was 94-96, hitting 98 MPH once. His control was poor as well, with three walks and two wild pitches in one inning. He gave up one run on a solo homer. Cederlind used all four of his pitches in his lone inning, throwing mostly fastballs, while mixing in his slider, curve and changeup.

Here’s the boxscore.

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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