The Pirates announced that they have selected the contract of right-hander Hunter Stratton from Triple-A Indianapolis, with left-hander Rob Zastryzny designated for assignment in a corresponding move.
Stratton, 26, was a 16th-round pick of the Pirates in the 2017 draft and has been working his way up to the majors since then. He generally posts high strikeout totals but with lots of walks as well, and that has continued to be the case this year. In 56 1/3 Triple-A innings this season, he has a 3.99 earned run average, striking out 30.6% of batters faced while giving out free passes at a 12.8% clip. He will now get a chance to get major league hitters out, making his big league debut as soon as he gets into a game.
Zastryzny, 31, is designated for assignment by the Bucs for the second time this year. He signed a minor league deal with the club in the offseason and cracked the Opening Day roster. He was designated for assignment in July and accepted an outright assignment after clearing waivers. He was added back to the roster a couple of weeks ago but has lost his spot again. Between those two stints, he tossed 20 2/3 innings with a 4.79 ERA, 15.5% strikeout rate and 13.4% walk rate.
The club will place him back on waivers in the coming days. He’s out of options, so any claiming club would have to add him to their active roster. He has just over a year of service time, meaning he could be retained for five more seasons if any club were willing to give him that roster spot. But the last time he was put on waivers, he passed through and stuck with the Pirates, which could perhaps happen again in the days to come.
They should have waived worthless Carpa, the no hitting, no fielding utility player
The announcers in yesterday’s game said that Shelton “ really likes what he brings to a game “
Yesterday he struck out twice and committed a throwing error that cost them an unearned run
Shelton must have a special liking for strikeouts, Jack Suwinski is 4th in the league with 141 of them
Zastryzny is worth 33 pts in Scrabble, for the zero of you keeping score at home.
He was money for the 2016 Cubs
Stratton has had middling results in AAA but he may be close to possibly being lost in the Rule 5 draft so they are wisely checking on him in advance.
Idk, the Pirates have already gotten him through the Rule 5 at least once. It’s not like he’s one of their best relief prospects, so I doubt that he’s seen as someone they’re looking to keep out of the R5 draft.
Not sure whether they counted 2020 as a year or not.
They may have said that about Sabol last year too.
I think that they know with relief pitchers the more the merrier.
And he certainly cannot be any worse than Z and Bolton has not pitched well either except for a couple of outings lately.
For all of those naysayers that said Andujar was finished, he hit a home run and drove in 2 runs to go along with an opposite field single and what is his reward for these accomplishments?
He’s benched in favor of weak hitting Rivas
Rivas is batting .263 with 4 doubles in his last 9 games. Also has an above league average OPS vs RHP. Honestly Rivas has been a pretty good defensive 1B. I’d be playing him for that alone right now.
Left handed hitters are batting .214 against Burnes, but it won’t matter as long as these guys continue to swing at pitches nowhere close to the plate
Rivas May be OK but Andujar needs to get consistent at bats at some position so they can find out if he can hit.
They’ve screwed with him long enough.
We’re not talking Murderers Row or The Lumber Company here.
This is one of the serious problems with Shelton- sitting hot hitters just because they have a scheduled off day.
Andujar was just recently promoted, scheduling him for an off day makes about as much sense as his lineups
What is the reason why Connor Joe bats clean up?
Pegs hits the ball with more authority than Joe
Buy a vowel, Z