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Pirates Acquire Jake Elmore from Chicago White Sox

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The Pittsburgh Pirates have acquired INF/OF Jake Elmore in a trade with the Chicago White Sox on Thursday. Elmore was briefly with the Pirates during the 2014-15 off-season when they picked him up off waivers from the Cincinnati Reds. He has been assigned to Indianapolis.

Elmore has played parts of five seasons in the majors, appearing with a different team each year from 2012 to 2016. The 31-year-old has a .215/.297/.280 slash line in 197 games. He spent the 2018 season in Triple-A for the White Sox, where he posted a .756 OPS over 101 games. Elmore went 2-for-7 with a walk, in seven games this Spring Training. He has appeared at every position in both the majors and minors, with his primary spot being second base.

 

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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