Eduard Pinto South Atlantic League POW 070416 to 071016

Eduard Pinto of the Hickory Crawdads was selected the South Atlantic League Player of the Week for the span of July 4, 2016 through July 10, 2016. For the week he hit 17 for 30, .567/.581/.833 with 2 2B, 2 HR, 8 RBI, 5 R, 0 SB and 1 BB in 7 games. This season the outfielder is hitting .359/.410/.527 with 4 HR, 22 RBI, 19 R, 1 SB in 37 games. Hickory is the Class A  team of the Houston Astros. He originally signed with the Rangers in 2011 as an amateur free agent out of Venezuela. Pinto will be 22 on October 23.