The Arizona Fall League will play their Fall-Stars game on Saturday night and Pittsburgh Pirates fans will be able to watch two of the team’s top infield prospects. Nick Gonzales and Ji-hwan Bae have been selected to represent the West Division and Peoria Javelinas in the league’s version of the All-Star game. The game is being televised on Saturday night at 7 PM ET on MLB Network.
Gonzales is currently fifth in the league with a 1.059 OPS. He’s hitting .381/.487/.571 in 17 games. He ranks third in the league in average, second in OBP and tenth in slugging.
Bae is batting .269/.370/.388 in 17 games. He ranks third in the league with seven steals and he’s fourth in the league with 18 runs scored.
Peoria is off on Wednesday. They went into today in third place, trailing both first place teams by 1.5 games. There are seven games left in the regular season for them to make up that difference and get a chance to play in next weekend’s championship game.