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Pittsburgh Pirates Claim Left-Handed Pitcher Sam Moll

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The Pittsburgh Pirates announced on Monday afternoon that they have claimed left-handed pitcher Sam Moll off of waivers from the Oakland A’s.

The 25-year-old Moll made his Major League debut this September with the A’s, posting a 10.80 ERA and a 2.40 WHIP over 6.2 innings and 11 appearances. He spent the rest of the 2017 season in Triple-A, split between the A’s and the Rockies, where he posted a 3.64 ERA and 1.47 WHIP, with 47 strikeouts in 54.1 innings over 50 appearances. Moll has two options remaining.

Baseball America rated him among the top 30 prospects for the Rockies four times since he was a third round draft pick in 2013. They reported that he has a mid-90’s fastball with life, which gets swinging strikes and ground balls. He also has a mid-80s slider, which is an effective out pitch. Moll has a 1.44 GO/AO ratio during his minor league career and has averaged nearly a strikeout per inning every season.

The 40-man roster now has one open spot.

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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