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Pirates Designate Chris Owings For Assignment, Select Angel Perdomo

By Nick Deeds | June 3, 2023 at 12:10pm CDT

The Pirates announced a series of roster moves this morning as the club selected the contract of left-hander Angel Perdomo and recalled right-hander Yerry De Los Santos to the big league club. In corresponding moves, infielder Chris Owings was designated for assignment while right-hander Cody Bolton was optioned to Triple-A Indianapolis.

Perdomo, 29, has not pitched in the majors since 2021 after making a 2 2/3 inning MLB debut for the Brewers in 2020. In 19 2/3 career innings in the big leagues, Perdomo sports a 8.24 ERA and 6.43 FIP. While he’s struck out a strong 33.7% of batters faced over that time, his massive 23.5% walk rate has held him back from being a quality big league reliever to this point. While Perdomo has posted a strong 2.47 ERA at the Triple-A level since the start of the 2022 season, it’s been accompanied by continued control issues, as evidenced by his 15.3% walk rate in that timeframe. The Pirates are clearly hoping Perdomo can harness his excellent stuff to contribute to the bullpen alongside fellow lefties Rob Zastrynzy and Jose Hernandez.

De Los Santos, on the other hand, made his big league debut for the Pirates last season, posting a 4.91 ERA and 4.01 FIP in 26 appearances. Now 25, he figures to help the likes of Perdomo and Yohan Ramirez cover the middle innings for the Pirates bullpen.

On the other end of things, the moves likely bring Owings’s time with the Pirates to an end. A former first round pick by the Diamondbacks in the 2009 draft, Owings signed with the Pirates this past offseason on a minor league deal, eventually being selected to the roster in early May after initially being re-assigned to the minor leagues after failing to make the roster out of spring training. Owings appeared in ten games for the Pirates, with 12 strikeouts, no walks, and four hits (all singles) in 25 trips to the plate.

Though Owings has not managed to find regular playing time at the big league level since leaving the Diamondbacks in 2019, he’s appeared in parts of 11 big league seasons thanks in large part to his versatility, which has allowed him to appear in every defensive position throughout his big league career except for first base and catcher.

Meanwhile, Bolton heads to Indianapolis less than two weeks before his 25th birthday. A sixth-round pick by the Pirates in the 2017 draft, Bolton saw considerable success in the lower levels of the minors and was considered one of the better prospects in the Pirates organization early in his professional career. Unfortunately, he struggled with his command in 2022 at the Triple-A level, with a 12.4% walk rate in 75 2/3 innings split between the rotation and the bullpen. Nonetheless, he made his big league debut earlier this season, but in five appearances in the majors, Bolton has struggled to a 12.83 ERA in just eight innings of work. He figures to act as depth in Triple-A going forward as he tries to get things back on track.

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  1. fre5hwind

    4 months ago

    Finally, dude is horrific.

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  2. TheMan 3

    4 months ago

    Owings was another player that hit very well in spring training but failed to carry it over to the regular season

    Bolton’s another player except he pitched well at AAA
    The morale of the story is just because a player does well against minor league players, that scenario often doesn’t lead to doing well at the major league level

    I’ll wait until some semantic guru comes out and says I’m wrong before saying anything else

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    • KingOmar

      4 months ago

      Owings is ALWAYS that way. Smashes in ST, then flails in the regular season. He did the exact same thing with Baltimore last year. He sucks.

      Reply
  3. Macbeth

    4 months ago

    Perdomo is 6’8 265. What a hoss.

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    • FullMontilla

      4 months ago

      Sounds like a player in a bugs bunny cartoon

      Reply
  4. Buccrazy

    4 months ago

    When Mathias was called back up, it was obvious owings was done any day.

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    • TheMan 3

      4 months ago

      Mathias isn’t much better than Owings except he’s younger

      Reply

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