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Winter Leagues: Mel Rojas Jr. Leads the Dominican League in Homers

Just one game in the Dominican on Thursday night, but it produced one of the strangest stats of the off-season. Mel Rojas Jr. hit his sixth homer, which leads the Dominican winter league. He has done that while playing 21 of his team's 28 games, with a few of them coming off the bench. In his six seasons of pro ball, Rojas has hit 28 homers in 2709 plate appearances. He hit just two during the 2015 regular season. He also played two seasons of winter ball prior to this year and had no homer in 54 games. Basically, he isn't the player you would expect to lead the league in homers at this point.