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Pirates Winter Leagues: Duane Underwood Jr. Heads to Puerto Rico

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There was some action in Puerto Rico, Mexico and Colombia for Pittsburgh Pirates players in winter ball. That includes a new player showing up. Here’s a recap of the action.

Puerto Rico

Duane Underwood Jr. showed up on the active roster for Criollos de Caguas on Tuesday. He has played winter ball once before, and it was for the same team two years ago. He pitched six scoreless innings that winter. Underwood did not appear in Tuesday’s game.

Tsung-Che Cheng started at second base and he went 0-for-4. He’s now hitting .189 in 11 games, with a double, triple, two steals and four walks.

Josh Palacios went 0-for-3 with a run scored and a HBP. He’s hitting .229 in ten games, with two doubles, a homer and five walks.

Colombia

Andres Alvarez went 2-for-6 with two singles, a run and an RBI. He’s hitting .362 with a 1.061 OPS in 28 games.

Rodolfo Nolasco went 1-for-4 with a single. He has a .229 average and a .748 OPS in 25 games.

Francisco Acuna went 1-for-3 with a walk and a run scored. He has a .225 average and a .715 OPS in 27 games.

Mexico

Fabricio Macias went 2-for-4 with a walk-off single. He had a walk-off single four days ago as well. He has a .263 average in 53 games, with 14 doubles, two triples and a 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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