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Steven Brault Suffers Left Shoulder Muscle Strain

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The Pittsburgh Pirates announced that left-handed pitcher Steven Brault has been shut down due to a left shoulder muscle strain. He will be reassessed in two weeks.

This is the third pitcher lost by the Pirates in the last two days. Yesterday it was announced that Clay Holmes will miss the beginning of the season due to a fractured right fibula. This morning Tom Koehler announced his retirement after attempting to come back from shoulder surgery. Holmes and Brault were both favorites for the Opening Day roster and now neither of them will be available on March 26th when the Pirates open up in Tampa.

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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