{"id":700412,"date":"2026-05-29T00:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T00:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/700412\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T00:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T00:10:10","slug":"pirates-right-hander-jared-jones-to-make-first-mlb-appearance-since-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/700412\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates right-hander Jared Jones to make first MLB appearance since 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/pittsburgh-pirates\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"pittsburgh-pirates\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/jared-jones\/08eb7a4c-cd3e-4a6f-8323-0de3455a8be7\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"08eb7a4c-cd3e-4a6f-8323-0de3455a8be7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jared Jones<\/a> will make his first MLB appearance since 2024 when he starts against the Minnesota Twins on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Jones missed all of last season after injuring his elbow during spring training. He underwent internal brace surgery on May 21, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPretty damn cool,\u201d Jones said Thursday. \u201cIt took a lot of time, 12 months, almost exactly, of not playing baseball. You kind of get a sense that you need it. That\u2019s kind of what I\u2019ve learned about myself over that time. I\u2019m just extremely grateful to be back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Jones made five rehab starts in the minor leagues, pitching 18.1 innings. As a rookie in 2024, Jones had a 6-8 record with a 4.14 ERA in 22 starts.<\/p>\n<p>Carmen Mlodzinski will be moved from the rotation to the bullpen. He is 4-3 with a 3.76 ERA in 11 games this season. He has a 2.63 ERA in 94 career relief appearances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe feel this gives the team the best chance to win in all areas,\u201d Pirates manager Don Kelly said. \u201cCarmen has done a nice job as a starter, and he can also fill that role in the bullpen, multiple innings. That\u2019s a starting pitcher-ish, bulk, multi-inning high leverage guy out of the (bullpen).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pittsburgh Pirates right-hander Jared Jones will make his first MLB appearance since 2024 when he starts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-700412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}