Spring training thread: Clay Holmes faces the Orioles

The Pirates travel to Sarasota to take on Baltimore. The Bucs will send out a couple of pitchers who could impact the team’s fortunes in the not-distant future, as Clay Holmes will start and Nick Kingham is also slated to pitch. Other scheduled pitchers are Jared Hughes, Antonio Bastardo, Josh Lindblom and Dan Runzler. Ivan Nova and Angel Sanchez are expected to pitch in a minor league game at Pirate City. In recent years, the Pirates have increasingly relied on minor league games to get innings for established veterans like Nova.

The lineup, wherein everybody moves to some place different:

1. Adam Frazier, 2B
2. Alen Hanson, SS
3. Phil Gosselin, 1B
4. Josh Bell, DH
5. Elias Diaz, C
6. Austin Meadows, CF
7. Danny Ortiz, LF
8. Eury Perez, RF
9. Gift Ngoepe, 3B