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Pirates Place Brubaker on Injured List; Recall Luis Ortiz

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The Pittsburgh Pirates placed JT Brubaker on the 15-day injured list with right arm inflammation prior to Sunday’s game. They have recalled pitcher Luis Ortiz to take his place on the 26-man roster. Brubaker’s move was made retroactive to September 16th and there’s a good chance he pitches again before the season ends. Ortiz threw 5.2 shutout innings in his big league debut on Tuesday.

This recall has an interesting twist that you rarely see. Ortiz was also announced as the starter for Tuesday according to some sources on Twitter. If that is true, then it’s odd to see a starting pitcher added two days before he is going to pitch. Usually a team would add an available player, then recall the pitcher when it was his turn to start. That’s a nice bonus for Ortiz, who received a small bonus to sign originally and was living off regular minor league pay until five days ago. Since it has been five days since his start, you wonder if he is available today and Tuesday could be filled by someone else if he is used.

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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