The Pirates made several moves ahead of the last three games before the All-Star Break.<\/p>\n
Two right-handed relievers, Thomas Harrington and Antwone Kelly are being recalled from Triple-A Indianapolis.<\/p>\n
To make room on the roster, the Pirates are sending Cam Sanders and Hunter Stratton to Indy.<\/p>\n
Harrington made three appearances (one start and two relief) in 2025 has made six starts over 20 appearances this season in Triple-A.<\/p>\n
Ranked #12 in the Pirates organization by MLB Pipeline, Harrington has struck out 56 batters over 58 innings of work.<\/p>\n
He is 1-5 with a 6.52 ERA this season with a .282 batting average against and 26 walks in 58 innings. Last year at AAA 7-9, 5.34 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 96 innings, 33 walks, 90 strikeouts, 20 home runs allowed. In his last 4 relief outings combined 8.1 innings, 11 hits, 3 walks, 8 earned runs, 9 strikeouts<\/p>\n
Kelly has one appearance for the Pirates this season, pitching 2.1 innings with a 7.71 ERA.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old Kelly is 4-5 this season with an ERA of 4.58 over 17 games (12 starts). Coming off 6 scoreless innings allowing 4 hits with a walk and 2 strikeouts and over his last 4 appearances (2 starts) he has lowered his ERA from 7.71 to 4.85.<\/p>\n
Sanders had an 8.68 ERA over nine appearances and Stratton had a 5.40 ERA over three appearances in Pittsburgh <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pirates made several moves ahead of the last three games before the All-Star Break. Two right-handed relievers,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4662,89170,1423,73,75,74,10997,63301],"class_list":["post-240440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-baseball","tag-bullpen","tag-mlb","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-roster-moves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240440","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=240440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}