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Francisco Cervelli Placed on Disabled List; Jacob Stallings Recalled

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The Pittsburgh Pirates have placed catcher Francisco Cervelli on the 7-day concussion disabled list prior to Friday night’s game. They have recalled catcher Jacob Stallings from Indianapolis to take his place on the 25-man roster. Stallings was just recently with the Pirates for eight days, but he did not get into any games and returned to Indianapolis for the last four days. He was already with the Pirates on the taxi squad just in case Cervelli wasn’t available.

Arden Pabst was promoted from Bradenton to Indianapolis to take Stallings’ place on the Triple-A roster. That was due to the fact that Jackson Williams, who is the third-string catcher for both Altoona and Indianapolis, was placed on the disabled list four days ago and isn’t eligible to be removed until Monday. Williams wasn’t actually injured, they just didn’t have a roster spot for him. Hunter Owen is now the backup catcher for Bradenton, although he started tonight. He caught this spring, but has not been behind the plate until tonight.

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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