SAL1 Charleston RiverDogs

Yankees Shuffle Nunezes

Published on July 30, 2007 under South Atlantic League (SAL1)
Charleston RiverDogs News Release


CHARLESTON, S.C. - The New York Yankees have announced that South Atlantic League shortstop Eduardo Nunez has been promoted to the Class-A Advanced Tampa Yankees after spending all of the season thus far with the Class-A Charleston RiverDogs. Nunez, who started 90 games for Charleston, will be replaced on the roster by Luis Nunez.

Eduardo Nunez, a 20-year-old from Azua, Dominican Republic, has spent most of the last two seasons with the RiverDogs, also splitting time between Charleston and Tampa in 2006. He started the 2006 campaign with Tampa and hit .184 in 37 games before joining the RiverDogs and hitting .227 in 90 games with them. Eduardo Nunez signed with the Yankees as a non-drafted free agent in 2004.

Twenty-year-old Luis Nunez, a Maracaibo, Venezuela native, played in 15 games this season with Charleston from May 5 to June 6, batting .235 before being sent to the Staten Island roster. Playing for the short-season squad, he batted .236 in 34 games. Luis Nunez signed with the Yankees as a non-drafted free agent in 2003.

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