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Despite the Missed Time, Adrian Valerio is Showing Offensive and Defensive Improvements

Adrian Valerio has every right to be frustrated. After all, he’s lost two months of the 2017 season, which was supposed to be his first taste of full-season ball. Even if he starts every game for the West Virginia Power for the rest of the season, he will have only played 27 games more than he did last year. Even more frustrating: both of his injuries were freak accidents (getting hit by a pitch on just the right spot to break a bone in his hand and taking a ball off the cheek when a throw deflected off a runner’s helmet).