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Pirates Call-Up Pedro Florimon, Deolis Guerra to the 60-Day DL

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The Pittsburgh Pirates have purchased the contract of Pedro Florimon from the Bristol Pirates. To make room on the 40-man roster, they have transferred Deolis Guerra from the 15-day DL to the 60-day DL.

As I mentioned on Sunday, Florimon was one of six players who were getting called up from Triple-A (along with Rob Scahill being activated from the disabled list). The Pirates couldn’t bring Florimon up yesterday, due to his outright assignment being less than ten days ago. To work around that, they sent him to Bristol, who saw their season end yesterday. As a result, they were able to call him up today, the first day after Bristol’s season, and get him up without having to wait ten days since his outright assignment.

Florimon will give the Pirates a strong defensive option at shortstop, although they’ve got that with Jordy Mercer right now. He could also be used as a pinch runner.

Tim Williams
Tim Williams
Tim is the owner, producer, editor, and lead writer of PiratesProspects.com. He has been running Pirates Prospects since 2009, becoming the first new media reporter and outlet covering the Pirates at the MLB level in 2011 and 2012. His work can also be found in Baseball America, where he has been a contributor since 2014 and the Pirates' correspondent since 2019.

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