Tuesday’s action in winter ball for the Pittsburgh Pirates was all playoff games. We have a recap from the one game in Colombia and two games in Puerto Rico, plus we had a new player added to our coverage.
Puerto Rico
During his first day as a member of the Pirates, Chavez Young went 1-for-2 with a double, two walks and an RBI in his team’s 6-1 win. He went 1-for-3 with a walk and a run scored in the first playoff game, then followed it up with an 0-for-4 game in which he drew a walk. He played 13 regular season games in Puerto Rico, putting up a .289/.385/.422 slash line in 52 plate appearances.
Tsung-Che Cheng went 1-for-4 with a walk and two RBIs in his team’s 4-3 loss in 12 innings. He went 2-for-5 with a sac bunt in the first two playoff games.
Josh Palacios went 1-for-5 with a run scored. He went 2-for-7 with a double, homer and a walk in his first two playoff games.
Colombia
The playoffs started on Tuesday in Colombia, with Andres Alvarez and Francisco Acuna on opposite sides, playing each other’s teams in a best-of-five series. The winner will go on to play the first place team in the league finals.
Alvarez went 1-for-3 with a single, walk and a stolen base in his team’s 6-3 loss.
Acuna went 1-for-4 with a single on the winning side.
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Chavez Young looks like a great addition for the Bucs
The new rules should favor his style of play
Also from Fangraphs there is this
“Young is reportedly good friends with Cedric Mullins, and like his buddy, he may benefit from dropping the whole switch hitting thing”
Confirmed that young is officially mullins
Do you really think Eric L at Fangraphs was saying that?
And Cole Tucker was friends with and trained with MVP Cody Bellinger.
FanGraphs grasping there……..
Wow cant believe that we let MVP equivalent go that easy
I wish Reynolds didn´t sign that two year deal because reports about his arbitration proceedings this offseason would have been very entertaining to me
Poor Lewin Diaz just got DFAd again. He just got claimed again by Baltimore on the 5th and DFAd today again by the O’s. Will he get claimed or will he pass through and get outrighted, or even traded this time?
saw that
who plays first base for us in AAA? Malcom? Mason?
There was also some noise about giving Gorski some time at 1st as well then he got hurt. I would rather have those 3 fight it out anyway.
Still nothing on Shim Jun-seok, but an article on a guy who is organizational depth.
Wrote about Shim before everyone back in September when he actually agreed to the deal. We will also have a preview this weekend
Must’ve missed that one. My bad, JD.
Not to be that guy, but I didn’t think he signed.
He agreed in September a short time before I wrote that article, but it was worded a specific way because he was eligible to sign during the 2022 signing period and Pirates had zero bonus pool space and trades to get more weren’t possible. Trust me, I’m not as smart as that article made me look. There was always a chance he panicked, signed early and they couldn’t do anything about it, so there was good reason not to commit to him signing with the Pirates. Once the period ended on December 15th and there was a freeze on signings until January 15th, then news of him started to trickle in that the Pirates were interested, which then turned into everyone slowly finding out that he will be signing after the period starts on Sunday. I didn’t post anything new, just shared the earlier link a few times. I don’t know if he’s signing on Sunday due to the time difference, since the period begins Eastern Time Zone in the morning, but he will sign at some point after it starts (assuming that under the Correa Clause, he passes the physical of course).
Appreciate the detail, John.
Apparently, you’re supposed to repeat what you wrote months ago and pretend it’s news.
This just in: The Pirates are 1979 World Series Champions!
This but unironically!
We all have impossibly short memories. Take the W and save yourselves the work of thinking up new content every single day.
(and yes you’ll probably get dragged if you repeat, too. probably by assholes like me, even.)
MLB only ranked him in October (#2 pitcher and #10 overall IFA), so that would raise the attention on this board, you think?
You would think, but I mentioned why the Pirates are favorites to sign him here in September and it got 14 comments, besides the fact it was announcing a major signing who the Pirates were favorites to sign
https://www.piratesprospects.com/2022/09/pirates-favorites-to-sign-top-30-international-prospect.html
We’re all keeping our fingers crossed on Jan. 15 – 16. This kid has high ceiling!
He’s signing. The only thing that would stand in the way is a bad physical, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that wasn’t already done
Man, I hate coming across as an A**hole, especially with someone like Dreker. Dude just reports the news, without being an opinionated blowhard.
I just need some Shim news.