\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPittsburgh Pirates right-hander Jared Jones will make his first MLB appearance since 2024 when he starts against the Minnesota Twins on Friday night.Jones missed all of last season after injuring his elbow during spring training. He underwent internal brace surgery on May 21, 2025.\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.\u201dThe 24-year-old Jones made five rehab starts in the minor leagues, pitching 18 1\/3 innings. As a rookie in 2024, Jones had a 6-8 record with a 4.14 ERA in 22 starts.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.\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\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Pittsburgh Pirates right-hander Jared Jones will make his first MLB appearance since 2024 when he starts against the Minnesota Twins on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Jones missed all of last season after injuring his elbow during spring training. He underwent internal brace surgery on May 21, 2025.<\/p>\n
\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
The 24-year-old Jones made five rehab starts in the minor leagues, pitching 18 1\/3 innings. As a rookie in 2024, Jones had a 6-8 record with a 4.14 ERA in 22 starts.<\/p>\n
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
\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 Pirates right-hander Jared Jones will make his first MLB appearance since 2024 when he starts against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31568,73,75,74,10997],"class_list":["post-204870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-jared-jones","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}