The Pirates brought Nick Solak back on a minor league contract, relays Alex Stumpf of MLB.com. He was briefly a free agent after being placed on waivers this week.
Solak spent a couple weeks on the big league bench after being called up in the middle of May. He went 1-11 with two strikeouts over the four games he played. He started twice at first base and one time in left field. It marked his first MLB action in two years. The Bucs dropped him from the roster when Nick Gonzales returned from an ankle fracture. Solak is out of options, so Pittsburgh needed to run him through waivers to take him off the MLB roster.
While Solak didn’t make an impact in his MLB cameo, the former second-round pick has destroyed Triple-A pitching this year. He’s hitting .393/.452/.625 with six homers across 126 plate appearances with their Indianapolis affiliate. He’s a career .291/.379/.472 hitter over parts of six Triple-A seasons. Solak has never found a great defensive home and has not gotten an extended MLB opportunity since his 2021 season with the Rangers. He’ll try to maintain his blistering early-season pace in the International League to earn another big league look later in the year.
It’s time to trade both Keller and Hayes for a consistent hitting 3rd baseman and promote Chandler to take Keller’s spot in the rotation
Historically, 3rd baseman are power hitters, Hayes only has 1 homer
TheMan3
They had a power hitting first baseman that averages about 20 HRs a year. Has 9 already this year. Is flawed due to inconsistency but Nutting didn’t want to pay the market rate. Traded him in a salary dump. As usual, Pirates got little in return.
Still no power at the corners where there should be.
Hayes is a third baseman which is the position I was referring to but I get your point.
Carlos Santana wanted to come back last year but he wanted $2 million more than Tellez wanted
Yesterday I received an email from the Pirates front office trying to sell me one of their boxes ( probably because I was a former season ticket holder) and respectfully I basically said when Nutting puts a competitive team on the field again I will refuse to waste my money on this pathetic team
Yes agree totally! Throw in a couple more young arms go big! Mayo from Orioles, plus another hitter!! This is getting stupid!
Why would anybody have wanted Bednar last year? And you have no idea whether Mayo could have been acquired for him even if the Orioles did want him.
You simply will use anything as an opportunity to moan about the team.
Welcome back to Indy.
HR, double and single last night with 5 RBIs.
Maybe the Pirates should give him a longer look next time?
Can you really judge on 10 ABs?
Not really.Especially when he goes for weeks and gets one or two at bats a week.
But it does show the difference between AAA and MLB.That is why I do not get too excited about minor league players until they start playing well in MLB.
if. these low scoring games combined with double digit strikeout’s continue both Kelly and Ben will be looking for new jobs next year
The 2025 Pittsburgh Pirates are the team the Nutting-haters deserve.
What could this statement possibly mean?
Bob Nutting is getting exactly the attedance he deserves. Fix it for you.