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The key takeaway from that last sentence is the phrase, “relative to exit speed on home runs”. A perusal of Alvarez’s numbers on Baseball Savant show at-bats with higher exit velocity, that resulted in a much shorter distance traveled. It was easily Alvarez’s longest home run of the season, topping his previous best of 423 feet on May 3 at Busch Stadium versus St. Louis.
The ball landed in an empty boat docked alone the river walk. Video shows a man climb into the boat, retrieve the ball and walk away. Alvarez singled out the 2002 Derby in Milwaukee, when Jason Giambi and Sammy Sosa hit 11 and 12 homers in the first round before Giambi went on to win, as one he remembered.
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Álvarez was then selected to the USA National team, leading the team in batting average. Baseball America ranked him as the second-best pro prospect on the squad. Alvarez's move into Milwaukee's front office effectively signals the end of his playing days. The No. 2 overall selection in the 2008 first-year player draft, Alvarez reached the big leagues in 2010 and spent parts of nine seasons in the majors with the Pirates and Orioles.
Alvarez is one behind the lead home run lead in the National League, but leads all of baseball in no doubt home runs with nine. Infielder Justin Sellers was transferred from the 60-day disabled list from the 15-day DL to open a spot on the 40-man for Tabata. If you look closely at all of those videos from last year, El Toro had just three opposite field homers while piling up 36 bombs to tie for the lead in the National League in 2013. Hosmer, 33, batted .268 with eight home runs and 44 RBIs last season, when he was traded to the Red Sox from San Diego. In a 12-year career with the Royals, Padres and Red Sox, Hosmer has batted .277 with 196 homers and 879 RBIs.
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Pedro Alvarez hit his eighth homer of the season for the Pittsburgh Pirates. PITTSBURGH — Pedro Alvarez hit a majestic home run that wound up landing in a boat docked along the Allegheny River beyond the right-field stands at PNC Park. Josh Harrison and rookie Jung Ho Kang each had three hits of the Pirates' 13 hits while Neil Walker and Alvarez each had two. "These guys pour themselves into everything they do for the four days and it's hard to have to go up to a guy and pull him after two innings." WPXI Legal Analyst Phil DiLucente says Pedro's homerun ball belongs to the owner of the boat, according to the law. Just watch this El Toro Bomb entirely leave, I mean completely get launched out of PNC Park.
Also on Friday, the Red Sox traded utilityman Hoy Park to Atlanta for a player to be named or cash. Park, 26, hit .216 with two home runs for the Pirates last season. They traded him to Boston last month for minor league pitcher Inmer Lobo.
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Watch the video…it was his sixth homer during the 22 day games the Bucs have played this season. Dozier, who has a 10-game hitting streak, also scored all the way from first base on Joe Mauer's three-run single during a six-run second inning as the Twins built an early 7-0 lead. In 2009, he attended Spring training with the Pirates, but was assigned to the minor league's spring training on March 16, 2009. After playing several months with the Pirates High-A affiliate, Lynchburg Hillcats, Álvarez was assigned to Double-A Altoona Curve in late June. Álvarez led the Pirates organization in home runs and RBI with 27 and 95 respectively. Alvarez joined Houston's Daryle Ward and Pittsburgh's Garrett Jones as the only players to hit balls on the fly into the river since PNC Park opened in 2001.
Alvarez is hitting just .091 across seven games in June and .180 on the season, so the Orioles decided to drop him from their 40-man roster. Steve Wilkerson had his contract purchased from Triple-A Norfolk in a corresponding roster move. Was moved to the 7-day disabled list Friday due to an Achilles injury, David Hall of The Virginian-Pilot reports. MAY 17 A little over a week after his last bomb, Alvarez connected on a two-run blast that bounced into the river. It tied the game with Houston at four and the Bucs came back to walk off the Astros in the bottom of the ninth. Pittsburgh Pirates slugger Pedro Alvarez has hit 24 home runs for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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March 13, 2017 Baltimore Orioles signed free agent DH Pedro Alvarez to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. February 26, 2018 Baltimore Orioles signed free agent 1B Pedro Alvarez to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. December 3, 2018 Miami Marlins signed free agent 1B Pedro Alvarez to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. The 2014 season saw Álvarez's defense struggle, with an MLB-leading 24 errors by August 3.
Pedro Alvarez had the unenviable task of following Yoenis Cespedes in the Home Run Derby Monday night at Citi Field. The content on this site is for entertainment and educational purposes only. All advice, including picks and predictions, is based on individual commentators’ opinions and not that of Minute Media or its related brands. No one should expect to make money from the picks and predictions discussed on this website.
Alvarez is now in fifth-place all time among Pirates third basemen. Glen Perkins recorded his 14th save in as many opportunities by pitching a perfect ninth inning. “The boat owner has all the rights that are given to him under the Constitution. It’s his ball and he needs to get the ball back,” said WPXI legal analyst Phil DiLucente. All Cespedes had to do was hit nine, and he did, punctuating it with a long home run off the batters’ eye in center. Alvarez’s pitcher, Class A Bradenton third-base coach Rudy Pena, met the Alvarez family in 2005, when Alvarez was a junior in high school.
He finished the week 10-for-24 (.417) with 2 home runs and 13 RBIs. Álvarez continued his hot streak, going 4-for-5 with 5 RBIs on September 30 against the Florida Marlins while raising his season batting average 8 points from .249 to .257. Álvarez finished the season by winning the NL Rookie of the Month Award for September, hitting .311 and leading all Major League rookies with 26 RBIs in his final 27 games.
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