Postcards from Winter Ball

[Edgy MD]

Luisangel Acuña is pouring it on to the tune of .276 / .427 / .553 // .980 in The Venezuelan Winter League, despite taking a vicious beaning off the forearm last week. Those numbers represent 96 plate appearances.

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[Centerfield]

I saw a tweet that Hayden Senger is raking too. And I’m totally happy for him but I think this tells us a little about the quality of baseball being played there.

[Edgy MD]

Hayden is in the Dominican, which certainly has a higher standard of play than the VWL, but he has had only 13 trips to the plate.

[Frayed Knot]

Luisangel Acuña is pouring it on to the tune of .276 / .427 / .553 // .980 in The Venezuelan Winter League, ... hose numbers represent 96 plate appearances.

 

Now up to 174 plate appearances and a .282/.397/.542 slash line and I'm not sure whether or not those stats have been updated to include Saturday's Four HR game.

[MFS62]

The video I saw had his stats during his first homer. His BA was .188.

I'm not going to get too excited about this. other than saying "good game".

Later

[Edgy MD]

Unless he went something like 17 for 17, it would be impossible to climb from .188 to .282 in a single game 142 at-bats into the season. What you saw was not his batting average on the season, but his batting average for the post-season — a much smaller sample size.

It was, of course, an historically good one.