Puerto Rican Winter League
1B Cirilo Cruz: finished the regular season with a .316 BA (6-19) but whiffed 11 times.
RHP Raymar Diaz: was superb over his final two starts of the regular season for Arecibo, allowing no runs on just 4 hits over 11 IP while whiffing 9. His final stats for the regular season include a 2.52 ERA with just 15 hits surrendered in 25 innings. He walked 12 and struck out 20.
SS Edwin Maysonet: finished the regular season with a .240 BA (25-104) for Arecibo. Only 5 of those hits went for extra bases.
Nicaraguan Winter League
RHP Douglas Arguello: didn’t see action this week.
Venezuelan Winter League
RHP Paul Estrada: two scoreless inning this week with 3 punchouts. The reliever now has pitched 4.2 scoreless frames with 5 whiffs in playoff action for Magallanes.
RHP Juan Gutierrez: roughed up a bit in his second playoff start for Caracas, allowing 3 earned runs on 8 hits over 5 innings. Now has a 3.60 postseason ERA in 10 IP.
OF Richard Hidalgo: remains on fire for Magallanes in the playoffs. He went deep 4 times this week and is now hitting .405/.463/1.027 thru nine games with 7 home runs and 9 RBIs. No other player has hit more than 3 longballs.
C Humberto Quintero: just 3-15 in six games during the week and is now hitting .217 (5-23) in the playoffs for Aguilas, a total of eight games.
LHP Stephen Randolph: the non-roster invitee in his two playoff starts for Aguilas has allowed 11 hits and 7 walks in a total of 9 IP making his 5.00 ERA almost look good by comparison.
RHP Jose Rodriguez: the other recently-signed non-roster invitee in the VWL playoffs gave up a couple of runs on a hit and 2 walks in 1.2 innings this week, giving him a 6.75 ERA in just 2.2 IP of postseason work for Magallanes.
Dominican Winter League
LHP Wandy Rodriguez: has a 3.38 ERA with 5 hits allowed and 9 ponches in 5.1 postseason innings for Aguilas.
Mexican Pacific League
RHP Travis Driskill: made a second (and final) appearance in the playoffs, this time in relief. He allowed one earned run over 1.2 IP.
Playoffs and other notes:
- Manager Al Pedrique’s Magallanes ballclub is now 8-1 and atop the leaderboard in the VWL round-robin style playoffs. Aguilas is in 4th place with a 3-6 record. Caracas is in 5th and last place with a 2-7 mark.
- Los Mochis, the club that Driskill was on, was knocked out of the Mexico Pacific League playoffs by Hermosillo four games to one.
- In Puerto Rico postseason action, Arecibo leads Caguas 2 games to 1 in their best-of-seven semifinal series.
- Cheo Cruz, who’s Ponce club did not make the playoffs, announced that he was resigning as manager this week. Doesn’t sound like he intends to manage again in Puerto Rico in the future.
- Aguilas has a 9-4 record in DWL postseason play, putting them second out of four clubs in the playoffs.
- Updating the former Astros: Jose Lima for Aguilas in the DWL remains dominant in postseason play with a 1.40 ERA and 1.03 WHIP in 19.1 IP (three starts).