Trailing 2-0 in the bottom of the ninth Esmerlyn Valdez and Duce Gourson hit back-to-back home runs on consecutive pitches, but Hartford hung on for 3-2 win over the Curve in ten innings in front of 5 ...

Altoona rallied from a one-run deficit after seven innings to nab a 3-2 win in 10 innings over the Hartford Yard Goats in ...

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 ...

— Esmerlyn Valdez (@Valdezesmerlyn7) July 23, 2025 Valdez dominated at High-A this season, playing as one of the best prospects in the South Atlantic League.

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 ...

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.

Esmerlyn Valdez logró su mejor marca de 22 jonrones en la Liga Estatal de Florida en 2024 con Low-A Bradenton y participó en el segundo Spring Breakout anual, donde consiguió uno de los cuatro ...

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

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 … ...