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Pirates Make Another Round of Cuts as Opening Day Roster Takes Shape

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The Pittsburgh Pirates made another round of cuts on Thursday morning, trimming five players from the roster. All of the players were reassigned to minor league camp. It leaves them with 30 players on the active roster ahead of Opening Day on Sunday. They have said that the final moves could come as late as Saturday, but right now it looks like Elias Diaz, Jung-ho Kang and Jared Hughes will all start the season on the disabled list, so there aren’t many decisions left. We will have more on these moves later, but for now, here are the players cut today:

Jim Fuller

A.J. Schugel

Jorge Rondon

Ed Easley

Jacob Stallings

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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