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Pirates Trade Justin Sellers to White Sox

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The Pittsburgh Pirates have traded infielder Justin Sellers to the Chicago White Sox for a player to be named later or cash considerations. He has been injured most of this season, attempting three rehab comebacks before finally sticking this last time. He had played 16 games this season, mostly in the lower levels.

Deals like this are usually done because a players has an opportunity elsewhere and no spot with the Pirates, so they don’t block them from joining another team. That’s good business, because minor league free agents will see that a team doesn’t bury players in AAA, so they aren’t worried about who might be ahead of them on the depth chart. It allows you to sign better players, which adds depth to start the season. Deals like this usually end up turning out to be nothing, so don’t wait anxiously to hear who the player might be, Sellers just went from the 60-day DL to being outright to Indianapolis, so a team could have acquired him for nothing last week.

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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