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Minor Moves: Meadows and Ngoepe to DL; Vieaux Promoted to Bradenton

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The Pittsburgh Pirates have promoted left-handed starting pitcher Cam Vieaux from the West Virginia Power to the Bradenton Marauders. Vieaux was elected to the South Atlantic League All-Star game, which took place on Tuesday night, but he did not pitch. He will replace Dario Agrazal in the rotation, after Agrazal was promoted to Altoona, where he made his debut last night.

Vieaux started this season of great, allowing six earned runs over his first seven starts. That was six games with one run allowed and one shutout appearance. He has run into a little trouble in his last four starts, posting a 4.94 ERA and a .300 BAA in 23.2 innings. The 23-year-old Vieaux was drafted in the sixth round last year.

As mentioned in our Prospect Watch last night, Justin Maffei and Anderson Feliz were on their way to Indianapolis after the Altoona game. They are going there to replace Austin Meadows and Gift Ngoepe, who were both placed on the disabled list today with hamstring strains. Meadows was reported on yesterday by Brian Peloza, who also noted that Ngoepe has missed the last couple games due to a left hamstring tweak. Ngoepe tried to take batting practice on Tuesday and could not.

Indianapolis also received catcher John Bormann from Bradenton, as he replaces Jacob Stallings, who was called up earlier today.

For now, Altoona is two players short, although help might come from outside the organization at this point because none of the upper level teams are carrying extra players right now.

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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