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Pedro Alvarez Out 4-6 Weeks With Foot Injury

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According to the Pittsburgh Pirates, third baseman Pedro Alvarez will miss 4-6 weeks with a stress reaction of the fourth metatarsal on his left foot. The recovery time for that particular injury guarantees that he will be out for the rest of the regular season and the team would need to advance well into the playoffs for him to be an option. Effectively, the injury ends his season as he hasn’t played since August 26th, except for one pinch-hit at-bat last Friday, so he probably wouldn’t be up to game speed when he is healthy.

UPDATE 7:04 PM: From Tim Williams…

I wrote a few weeks ago that Pedro Alvarez shouldn’t be starting over Ike Davis. I still think that’s the case. Alvarez did heat up a bit before he went out, but that just put him tied with Davis, with Alvarez having the slight edge. Not having Alvarez really doesn’t hurt the Pirates’ offense much.

Where this does hurt the Pirates is from a depth perspective at third base. Alvarez has struggled at third this year, and that blow has been softened by the emergence of Josh Harrison. But as we saw this week, if Harrison goes down, the Pirates are now stuck with Brent Morel as their starting third baseman. If Ike Davis goes down, things might be a little better with Andrew Lambo at first base, but you’d want Alvarez’s power potential there, even if that potential hasn’t come through much this year.

Hopefully this won’t hurt the Pirates, and by that I mean, hopefully the Pirates won’t have an injury where they would have needed Alvarez to step up.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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