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Pirates Prospects Daily: Familiar Theme Emerging In Early Spring For Luis Ortiz

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For the most part, you can take spring training numbers and throw them in the trash. There are so many variables when it comes to the games, it makes it hard to put too much emphasis on what some of the basic counter statistics are.

Picking up trends or changes in a player can really tell more on what they are working on, or trying to improve upon.

Luis Ortiz blew onto the scene with his upper 90s fastball and wipeout slider, sending himself into the conversation as a potential rotation piece, and one of the better pitching prospects in baseball.