{"id":215912,"date":"2026-06-10T21:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215912\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T21:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:37:07","slug":"pirates-roster-moves-flores-recalled-davis-placed-on-paternity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215912\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Roster Moves: Flores Recalled, Davis Placed on Paternity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1120\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Davis2-1120x630.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium tpd-force-16x9-aspect-ratio wp-post-image\" alt=\"Henry Davis, Pittsburgh Pirates\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   loading=\"eager\"\/>Pittsburgh Pirates&#8217; Henry Davis looks on during a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Sunday, April 13, 2025, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo\/Jeff Dean)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates have recalled catcher\/first baseman Rafael Flores Jr from Triple-A Indianapolis and placed catcher Henry Davis on the paternity list. Flores was added to the taxi squad on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Flores played 53 games with Indianapolis this season and hit .207\/.320\/.324 with six doubles, two triples, four home runs and 27 RBI. He made his MLB debut with the Pirates last season and went 3 for 15 with two doubles in seven games to end the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates acquired Flores as part of a package from the New York Yankees for closing pitcher David Bednar at least year\u2019s deadline. <\/p>\n<p>Davis has played in 45 games for Pittsburgh this season and owns a .138\/.241\/.285 batting line with three doubles, five home runs and 17 RBI. He\u2019s played 44 games behind the plate, where he has a .993 fielding percentage, two defensive runs saved and a 52.6% caught stealing rate. <\/p>\n<p>In other catching news, Joey Bart, who was placed on the 10-day injured list with a left foot infection on May 12 (retro to May 10), will begin a rehab assignment with Low-A Bradenton on Wednesday. Bart hit .259 with a .670 OPS, one double, two home runs and six RBI in 21 games to start the season. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMentioned in this article: <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/henry-davis\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Henry Davis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/joey-bart\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joey Bart<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-pirates\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/rafael-flores-jr\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Flores Jr.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">More about:<a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/pirates-transactions\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pirates Transactions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates&#8217; Henry Davis looks on during a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Sunday, April 13, 2025,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[63505,57212,73,75,74,10997,94515],"class_list":["post-215912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-henry-davis","tag-joey-bart","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-rafael-flores-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215912","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=215912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}