The Pittsburgh Pirates sent Pedro Alvarez down to AAA Indianapolis less than 2 weeks ago. Let's take a quick look at what he's done since then. Here are his game logs with Indy:
August 18: 1/4, 2 K
August 19: 0/3, 2 BB
August 20: 0/4, 3 K
August 21: 1/4, 1 K
August 22: 0/3, 2 K
August 23: 1/4, 1 2B, 1 BB, 1 K
August 24: 0/3, 1 BB, 1 K
So that makes Alvarez 3/25 in the 7 games he's played at since the demotion. That's a .120 batting average. Two of his three hits were singles, and he's not drawing too many walks either. His struggles at the big league level seem to have followed him to Indianapolis.
That's certainly not good news for Pirates fans. Chances are that we will see him in a week or so when September call-ups roll around. I would think the Pirates would want to get him as many at bats as possible at whatever level they can for the rest of this year before deciding what to do with him this offseason. The Pirates had a lot of bright spots this year, but the performance of Alvarez has not been one of them. He has single handedly made me less confident about the future, and it will be extremely disappointing if he doesn't turn it around and become a good major leaguer.
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