Trailing by two runs in the bottom of the ninth, Esmerlyn Valdez and Duce Gourson hit back-to-back home runs on consecutive ...

Despite a ninth-inning rally to force extra innings, the Altoona Curve fell to the Hartford Yard Goats 3-2 in 10 innings Friday night in front of 5,256 fans at PNG Field. Hartford scored a run in the ...

Esmerlyn Valdez has had a summer to remember already and he’s just getting started. The young Altoona Curve star raked in High-A Greensboro as he hit .303 with 20 home runs and 51 RBI for the ...

Valdez is batting .182 with zero home runs and an 8:4 K:BB in 10 games since getting promoted from High-A Greensboro to Double-A Altoona on July 1. A righty-hitting corner bat who won't offer much ...

Altoona Curve outfielders Esmerlyn Valdez and Jase Bowen each had three hits in a 6-2 win over the Portland Sea Dogs ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (Greenville Drive) – The Greensboro Grasshoppers exploded for 10 runs across the second and third innings and rode Esmerlyn Valdez’s two-home-run night to a 12-2 rout of the ...

Coming into this season, Esmerlyn Valdez was not even ranked on MLB Pipeline's Top 30 Prospects for the Pittsburgh Pirates. After a 2024 season in Low-A where he smacked 22 home runs but only hit ...

Jarrod Prugar of the Altoona Mirror reported that Valdez departed the game in a cart and that Curve manager Andy Fox said Valdez went to the hospital, got x-rays on his lower leg after leaving the ...

Then, in 2024, Valdez was promoted to Low-A Bradenton and hit 22 homers. He added 17 doubles and drove in 61 runs while hitting .226 but had a 37.1% strikeout rate.

Pittsburgh Pirates prospects Konnor Griffin and Esmerlyn Valdez will represent the organization in the 2025 All-Star Futures Game July 12 in Atlanta. Griffin, the Pirates' ninth overall pick in ...

Pirates’ affiliates swung hot bats on Tuesday night, compiling five homers and three wins in four games played. 20-year-old first base prospect Esmerlyn Valdez hit his third homer in the past ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (Greenville Drive) – The Greensboro Grasshoppers exploded for 10 runs across the second and third innings and rode Esmerlyn Valdez’s two-home-run night to a 12-2 rout of the … ...