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Winter Leagues: Action Begins in Puerto Rico; Castro Homers

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Saturday marked the beginning of the winter league season in Puerto Rico. Two Pittsburgh Pirates prospects showed up on Opening Day rosters, but that number could change as the season goes along. Here’s a recap of all of Saturday’s action around winter ball for Pirates prospects.

In Puerto Rico, Bligh Madris batted cleanup for Gigantes de Carolina and had a nice opener in his team’s 5-1 loss, going 2-for-3 with a walk.

Ethan Paul was teammates with Madris in Indianapolis and now he’s teammates with him in Puerto Rico. He started at second base and batted ninth in the opener. He went 0-for-1 with a walk before leaving for a pinch-hitter.

In the Dominican, Rodolfo Castro hit his first homer of the winter. He went 3-for-5 and scored two runs. On Friday night, he had two hits, after going 0-for-10 in his first four games of the season. Here’s the homer:

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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