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Winter Leagues: Fernando Villegas and Ji-Hwan Bae Each Pick Up Three Hits

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We have some late results from Colombia on Wednesday, plus all of Thursday’s action for the Pittsburgh Pirates in winter ball.

From Wednesday in Colombia, Francisco Acuna went 1-for-4 with a single. He is hitting .352/.455/.394 in 23 games.

Edgar Barrios went 0-for-2 in the first game of a doubleheader. He is batting .161/.230/.161 in 21 games.

Thursday

In Australia, two Pirates were at shortstop in the same game. Ji-Hwan Bae went 3-for-5 with his fifth double and a run scored. He is hitting .310/.408/.571 in 12 games.

Robbie Glendinning was on the opposing side of Bae and he went 1-for-5 with a single and an RBI. He is batting .314/.352/.608 in 13 games, with six doubles and three homers.

Jerrick Suiter had an 0-for-4 game, then a few hours later, he was lost in the minor league portion of the Rule 5 draft. That ends his coverage here for the winter.

From Mexico, Fernando Villegas went 3-for-4 with three singles, an RBI and a run scored. In his first 13 games of the winter, mostly off the bench late, he went 3-for-14 with three doubles. He’s now hitting .333/.368/.500 in 14 games.

From Wednesday night (which was covered in yesterday’s winter article) here’s Randy Romero robbing a home run from Ali Solis, then showing off a nice arm.

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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