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Medical Updates on Andrew McCutchen, Jarlin Garcia and Dariel Lopez

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The Pittsburgh Pirates gave some medical updates to the local media via Todd Tomczyk, who is the director of sports medicine.

Andrew McCutchen is dealing with minor elbow soreness and won’t be playing for a few days. We still have exactly two weeks until Opening Day, so if there’s no setbacks here, he should be ready to go with no issue.

Jarlin Garcia has a nerve injury in his left upper arm, and won’t be throwing for the next 4-5 weeks, before being reevaluated. So his possible return is still up in the air.

Dariel Lopez dislocated his knee, which is going to cost him the entire season. He’s a top 20 prospect in the system for most sources, who hit .286/.329/.476 with Greensboro in 2022. The hitter-friendly Greensboro park led to a huge home/road split, with a .915 OPS in 51 home games, and a .692 OPS in 51 road games.

Robert Stephenson threw a live BP. He will likely do another one of those before getting into a game.

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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