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Minor Moves: Roster Shuffle for West Virginia After Two Injuries and a Taxed Bullpen

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The West Virginia Power made a couple roster moves on Tuesday afternoon, with their second injury in two days and and an overworked bullpen gets some help.

We mentioned this morning that outfielder Victor Fernandez was placed on the disabled list on Monday and Carlos Munoz was added to the roster. Munoz was with the team since Opening Day, but not on the active roster. He wasn’t originally in Monday night’s lineup, but first baseman Albert Baur was a late scratch and Munoz replaced him at first base. On Tuesday, Baur was placed on the disabled list and the Pirates added outfielder Ty Moore to the roster in his place. Moore has been in Extended Spring Training. He split last season between West Virginia and Morgantown.

The Power had to use utility fielder Logan Ratledge as a pitcher last night. That was due to an extra inning game last night and a doubleheader on Friday night. That led to right-handed pitcher Mike Wallace being added to the West Virginia roster to help out with innings. He was down in Extended Spring Training. The 22-year-old Wallace started at Bristol last year, where he posted a 3.61 ERA in 52.1 innings. He also made a brief appearance for Morgantown during the last week of the season, throwing two shutout innings.

To make room on the roster, Cam Vieaux was assigned to Extended Spring Training. That is just a paper move and Vieaux isn’t going anywhere. He started last night’s game and won’t be needed again until his start comes up later this week, making him the perfect player to replace.

Abigail Miskowiec will be covering tonight’s game live and we will try to get injury reports on Fernandez and Baur.

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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