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Pirates Trade Edward Salcedo to Royals

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The Pittsburgh Pirates have traded 3B/OF Edward Salcedo to the Kansas City Royals. The 24-year-old was acquired over the off-season from the Braves for minor league relief pitcher Bryton Trepagnier. Salcedo hit .238/.304/.346 in 73 games. It was worth a shot to see if he could ever justify the $1.6M bonus he got from Atlanta back in 2010. Trepagnier has been struggling in AA as well, so they didn’t lose anything in the deal. Salcedo has only played three games this month and one was off the bench, so he won’t be missed. Andy Vasquez was assigned to Altoona yesterday, so he can fill the 25th man role.

No return was announced, but it will likely be either a cash deal or a player to be named later that we never hear about.

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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