{"id":515944,"date":"2026-01-11T23:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/515944\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T23:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:34:13","slug":"luisangel-acuna-posts-first-four-homer-game-in-winter-league-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/515944\/","title":{"rendered":"Luisangel Acu\u00f1a Posts First Four Homer Game In Winter League History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another season, another year of extremely strong play in the Venezuelan Winter League for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/acunajo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=metsmerizedonline.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Luisangel Acu\u00f1a<\/a>. Acu\u00f1a continued to excel as he crushed four home runs for Cardenales de Lara on Saturday. It is the first four homer game in Venezuela Winter League history.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his monster performance on Saturday, Acu\u00f1a was slashing .282\/.397\/.542 (.939 OPS). He now has a \u00a022 extra-base hits across 146 at-bats. Acu\u00f1a has also walked (27) almost as much as he has struck out (33).<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is nothing new for Acu\u00f1a when it comes to winter ball. Acu\u00f1a hit .337 with a .914 OPS last season in Venezuela. His regular season once rejoining the New York Mets was then mighty unimpressive resulting in a couple demotions to Triple-A throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, it is nice to see the 23-year-old infielder playing well. The Opening Day roster for the Mets is surely to go through some changes. However, if Acu\u00f1a is able to carry over even a tad of what he has shown in Venezuela this winter, he could emerge as a valuable bench piece in 2026. Especially with the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcneije01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=metsmerizedonline.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jeff McNeil<\/a> gone and trade rumors swirling around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/v\/vientma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=metsmerizedonline.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mark Vientos<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mauriro01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=metsmerizedonline.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ronny Mauricio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-198351 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AX9Cr7M--e1686139984450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"133\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another season, another year of extremely strong play in the Venezuelan Winter League for Luisangel Acu\u00f1a. Acu\u00f1a continued&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,68281,1332,2186,228,61,4804,56071],"class_list":{"0":"post-515944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cardenales-de-lara","10":"tag-jeff-mcneil","11":"tag-luisangel-acuna","12":"tag-mark-vientos","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-ronny-mauricio","15":"tag-venezuelan-winter-league"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115879088272185917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}