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The Altoona Curve had a successful season winning 76 games and reaching the playoffs. Â The team was made up of a lot of moving top prospects. Â Most of these prospects made a strong impact on the team. Â The team also was backed up of a lot of experienced inning eating pitchers. Â Prospects like Tyler Eppler and Clay Holmes battled all year and kept their team in games.
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Next year they likely will have Kevin Newman back, and will see a lot of the top prospects from High-A join their team. Â Players like Yeudy Garcia, Kevin Kramer, and Jordan Luplow will make the jump to Altoona.
This concludes the Double-A Altoona Awards. Â Next up will be Triple-A Indianapolis Indians. Â The best part of this team entering the season was their pitching staff. Â Making up the staff was five top 20 prospects in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. Â They also had a few top hitting prospects led by Josh Bell, along with organization prospects Alen Hanson, Willy Garcia, Adam Frazier, and Max Moroff.
The Triple-A awards will be the last of the minor league affiliates. Â After that there will be an article on the overall awards for the Pittsburgh Pirates minor league players of the year.
