Just three day after the Pittsburgh Pirates claimed pitcher Sam Moll from the Oakland A’s, they lost him on waiver to the Seattle Mariners. The Mariners announced today that they picked up the 25-year-old left-handed reliever off waivers. Moll made his big league debut this September for the A’s and posted a 10.80 ERA over 6.2 innings and 11 appearances. That leaves the Pirates 40-man roster at 37 now.
Seattle Mariners Claim Pitcher Sam Moll from Pittsburgh Pirates
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.
