Here are the pitchers. Interestingly, the Pirates webpage lists McDonald as our #1 starter. I’m not buying this until Maholm is traded – so long as a player is pitching well, the honor of being “ace” on any staff usually goes to the longest tenured starter. Correia and Ohlendorf may, depending on performance, flip-flop as 3 and 4 starters until someone better comes along. In looking at what we have, while Maholm is still here, it almost seems as if Scott Olsen is destined for the pen to be another Jeff Karstens-like long reliever or swing man. Of course, this assumes that Charlie Morton doesn’t implode again. I didn’t make a lot of changes to the prospects because there are too many variables to accurately predict who will be at which spot in the rotation. However, if they all pitch as expected (NO JINX!!), it could be wonderful to have Rudy Owens or Bryan Morris as our 4th or 5th starter due to the strength of 1-3.
|
Position |
Player |
|
ST |
OL |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
|
S1 |
Paul Maholm dr03 |
|
5.037 |
3 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rudy Owens dr06 |
|
0.000 |
3 |
AAA |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
|
|
|
|
Jameson Taillon dr10 |
|
0.000 |
3 |
A |
AA |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
|
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S2 |
James McDonald tr10 |
|
1.004 |
0 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
31 |
|
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|
|
|
Bryan Morris tr08 |
|
0.000 |
3 |
AAA |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
31 |
|
|
|
|
Stetson Allie dr10 |
|
0.000 |
3 |
A |
AA |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
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S3 |
Kevin Correia fa11 |
|
6.027 |
1 |
30 |
31 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Zachary Von Rosenberg dr09 |
|
0.000 |
3 |
AA |
AAA |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
|
|
|
Luis Heredia fa10 |
|
0.000 |
3 |
R/A |
A |
AA |
AAA |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
|
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|
S4 |
Ross Ohlendorf tr08 |
|
2.139 |
2 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
31 |
32 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jeff Locke tr09 |
|
0.000 |
3 |
AA |
AAA |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
31 |
|
|
|
Zackry or Zachary1 dr09 |
|
0.000 |
3 |
A |
AA |
AAA |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
|
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|
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|
S5 |
Charlie Morton tr09 |
|
2.054 |
1 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
31 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Brad Lincoln dr06 |
|
0.072 |
1 |
AAA |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
31 |
32 |
|
|
|
|
The other Z or Z dr09 |
|
0.000 |
3 |
A |
AA |
AAA |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
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|
8th Inning |
Evan Meek 5dr07 |
|
2.037 |
2 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
31 |
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Closer |
Joel Hanrahan tr09 |
|
3.065 |
? |
29 |
30 |
31 |
32 |
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Player is not eligible for arbitration. |
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Player is eligible for arbitration. |
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Player is under contract. |
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Pirates have a contract option they may exercise. |
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Player is eligible to be a free agent. |
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1) Dodson or Fuesser. Fortunately for this chart, both were born within weeks of each other and drafted by the Pirates in the same year. I thank their mothers for this.




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