\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Pirates traded catcher Joey Bart to the Atlanta Braves on Thursday night.In exchange, Pittsburgh gets right-handed relief pitcher Hunter Stratton, who was assigned to Triple-A Indianapolis.The deal brings Stratton back to the Pirates nearly a year after he was designated for assignment and traded to Atlanta.VIDEO ABOVE: Pirates using Carmen Mlodzinski as ‘piggyback’ for Jared Jones. Is it a good bullpen strategy?Stratton threw one scoreless inning on May 2, his only appearance for Atlanta this year. He was 2-4 with a 4.38 ERA, one save and 24 strikeouts in 21 appearances with Triple-A Gwinnett. The Braves designated him for assignment on Wednesday.The 29-year-old Stratton was drafted by Pittsburgh in 2017 and played parts of three seasons with the Pirates from 2023 to 2025.Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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The Pirates traded catcher Joey Bart to the Atlanta Braves on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
In exchange, Pittsburgh gets right-handed relief pitcher Hunter Stratton, who was assigned to Triple-A Indianapolis.<\/p>\n
The deal brings Stratton back to the Pirates nearly a year after he was designated for assignment and traded to Atlanta<\/a>.<\/p>\n VIDEO ABOVE: Pirates using Carmen Mlodzinski as ‘piggyback’ for Jared Jones. Is it a good bullpen strategy?<\/p>\n Stratton threw one scoreless inning on May 2, his only appearance for Atlanta this year. He was 2-4 with a 4.38 ERA, one save and 24 strikeouts in 21 appearances with Triple-A Gwinnett. The Braves designated him for assignment on Wednesday.<\/p>\n The 29-year-old Stratton was drafted by Pittsburgh in 2017 and played parts of three seasons with the Pirates from 2023 to 2025.<\/p>\n Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pirates traded catcher Joey Bart to the Atlanta Braves on Thursday night.In exchange, Pittsburgh gets right-handed relief…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[55083,4844,1422,76286,69005,96964,57212,97018,139,97019,23785,18203,73,75,74,10997,97020,97017,420,78],"class_list":["post-223152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-assignment","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-braves","tag-carmen-mlodzinski","tag-hunter-stratton","tag-joey-bart","tag-joey-bart-trade","tag-news","tag-only-appearance","tag-pirate","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-scoreless-inning","tag-stratton","tag-video","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223152","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=223152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}