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Pirates Sign Buddy Borden

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The Pittsburgh Pirates signed a familiar name as a minor league free agent today, adding right-handed pitcher Buddy Borden. He will start tonight for Bradenton. Borden was a 7th round draft pick in 2013, who was traded to Tampa Bay for Sean Rodriguez prior to last season.

The Rays moved Borden to relief and he made the Florida State League All-Star team, while also pitching a no-hitter in a spot start. This year, the 24-year-old was pitching in Double-A, where he had a 5.22 ERA in 29.1 innings out of the bullpen. He was recently pitching well, with two runs over his last nine innings, but the Rays released him last week.

In 2014 for West Virginia, Borden had a 3.16 ERA in 128 innings, with 122 strikeouts, a 1.18 WHIP and a .220 BAA.

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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