Pirates minor league affiliates went 3-2 on Saturday, with the Indianapolis Indians sweeping their doubleheader—largely thanks to continued standout performances from the bats of Liover Peguero and Nick Gonzales—and Hudson Head helping the Greensboro Grasshoppers snatch victory from the jaws of defeat with a three-run walkoff home run.
Can Liover Peguero develop further in Triple-A? With the final round of Spring Training assignments saw prominent utility man, Liover Peguero, get sent down to Triple-A Indianapolis in favor of current starter Jared Triolo.
I didn’t expect this when spring training started on Feb. 14. Jared Triolo will be the Pittsburgh Pirates’ second baseman on Thursday when they open the season by visiting the Miami Marlins.
The 26-year-old appeared in 54 games as a rookie last season. The Houston product ran a .298/.388/.398 line with a trio of homers over his first 209 plate appearances.
The Pittsburgh Pirates’ opening day roster is starting to become clearer. Infielder Liover Peguero and left-handed reliever Jose Hernandez have been optioned to Triple-A Indianapolis, leaving the Pirates with 41 players remaining in big-league camp.
It had been 341 days since Oneil Cruz last hit a home run with the Pittsburgh Pirates. On Tuesday, he connected on his first homer of the spring in the Pirates’ 6-5 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in Bradenton.
With spring training’s arrival, the next few weeks will feature a number of camp battles around the league.
Liover Peguero broke into a big smile. The Pittsburgh Pirates infielder was making an appearance at PiratesFest last month when a reporter – OK, it was me — mentioned that Peguero had sneakily hit 20 home runs last season.
During Wednesday's media availability to discuss the McCutchen deal, Ben Cherington noted that his club hopes to add more starting pitching.
This is one in a series of stories breaking down members of the Pittsburgh Pirates 40-man roster. Liover Peguero has plenty of physical gifts. The Pittsburgh Pirates infielder possesses above-average power.
The minor-league season is coming to a close. Class Low- and High-A Bradenton and Greensboro are already done for the season, and Class AA Altoona wraps on Sunday.
ST. LOUIS -- Liover Peguero knows that if he doesn't hear Jack Suwinski, it means the play is his. As Nolan Gorman's third inning flare to center kept falling, the Pirates' slowed down to give Peguero space.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The joke started back in 2021 when Liover Peguero and Jared Triolo were still in Class High-A Greensboro. When they saw highlights of Ke'Bryan Hayes up in the majors, they would tell their teammates the same thing.
Ke'Bryan Hayes and Liover Peguero homered as the Pittsburgh Pirates rallied for a 6-3 win over the host Kansas City Royals on Tuesday evening. With two outs in the eighth, Hayes crushed an 0-1 slider from reliever Carlos Hernandez (1-9) 424 feet to left for a two-run home run and a 2-1 lead.
A Ke’Bryan Hayes’ two-run home run in the eighth inning and a Liover Peguero three-run home run the following frame lifted the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 6-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium on Tuesday night.
"THREE HUNDRED! YES! ONE MORE!" Liover Peguero can bring a loud boom with his bat, but his voice can be that much louder. He'd just burst into the clubhouse
NEW YORK -- It was just under a month ago that Liover Peguero just cleared the left field wall at PETCO Park for his first major-league home run. That July 24 line drive was a load off his mind, and rounding the bases in San Diego that night, he couldn't believe what he did.
It was an exciting week of baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates, who completed a seven-game stretch against two teams looking to make noise in the playoff hunt.
Recap Ke’Bryan Hayes and Liover Peguero combined for five RBIs in the Pittsburgh Pirates come-from-behind 7-5 victory over the Atlanta Braves at PNC Park on Thursday afternoon.
In only his sophomore season, Spencer Strider is quickly establishing himself as one of the game's best pitchers. After finishing second in Rookie of the Year voting one season ago, the Braves' right-hander got his first All-Star nod this year, will almost surely get Cy Young consideration and is flirting with a 300 strikeout season.
Liover Peguero hit a two-run homer and Johan Oviedo pitched seven strong innings as the Pittsburgh Pirates topped the visiting Detroit Tigers 4-1 on Tuesday in the first game of a two-game set.
In their previous series against the Los Angeles Angels, the Pittsburgh Pirates accomplished multiple instances of random baseball history. You can read about them here and here.
The Pittsburgh Pirates are calling up two more notable prospects as their rebuild begins to come together at the MLB level in earnest.
A top prospect in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization, shortstop Liover Peguero reveals how he learned the English language while growing up in the Dominican Republic.
Over 236 plate appearances with Altoona this year, Peguero has hit .292/.315/.469 with five home runs in his first time at the Double-A level.
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