Thanks to WTM, who mentioned this in the comments:
Pittsburgh Pirates
Signed: RHP Mitchell Fienemann, RHP Harvey Garcia
Released: RHP Carlos Amaro, RHP Jorge Charry, RHP Matt Foust, RHP Ivan Rusova, RHP Wardell Starling, RHP Malvin Vasquez, C Juan Garcia, C Christopher Jones, C Aeden McQueary, 1B Alex Vargas, 2B Matt Cavagnaro, OF James Barksdale, OF Caleb Fields, OF Mike Goetz, OF Albert Laboy, OF Joe Munoz
Optioned to Triple-A: C Robinzon Diaz, OF Steven PearceConsecutive Pirates’ picks in the ’07 draft, Foust (sixth round, Nebraska) and Garcia (seventh, P.R. Baseball Academy) failed to do much of anything outside the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League. Foust struck out 64 and walked 63 in 90 pro innings, while Garcia batted just .145/.184/.214 in 117 at-bats, all in the GCL.
Fienemann is Australian and appears to be about 18, so he may turn out to be a real prospect. Harvey Garcia was acquired by the Marlins from the Red Sox in the Josh Beckett trade, pitched a bit for Florida in 2007, and missed all of 2008 with shoulder trouble. He's 25.
The list of guys the Pirates released includes a couple of former semi-prospects in Starling and Laboy. Starling struggled to strike out batters as he moved up the chain and didn't pitch in '08, and Laboy had a semi-promising year at Hickory in 2007 but flopped last year. The dismissals of the Pirates' sixth- and seventh-round draft picks in 2007 are sad; it hasn't even been two years since that draft. The likelihood that the Bucs get anything from the 2007 draft is rapidly dwindling--first-rounder Danny Moskos is going nowhere, and all the only semi-prospects left are Brian Friday, Quincy Latimore, Andrew Walker, Tony Watson and Harrison Bishop.