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Pirates Prospects Player of the Week: Ji-hwan Bae

This week was a strong week for hitting in the system. The short-season teams did really well as a group, but every full-season team had about 4-5 guys with notable weeks. There were some nice pitching lines too, but all of the Player of the Week votes for the teams (and overall) went to hitters. While the top hitter wasn’t a unanimous choice, it took 11 weeks this year to get our first repeat winner. Ji-hwan Bae was named as the top hitter for the week of April 25 – May 1st. He earned his second Pirates Prospects Player of the Week honors this week by hitting .