Tuesday Roster Moves

The Pirates made a few fairly interesting roster moves today involving four different players. The first move they made was to add the recently acquired Drew Sutton to the 25 man roster, they did this by optioning infielder Matt Hague back to AAA. Hague was hitting at a .235 average with only two extra base hits in 68 just at bats. The Pirates are just hoping to catch lightning in a bottle when it comes to Sutton, he has played just eight-teen games with the Rays this season and only has thirteen hits, hopefully he can give the team some production in the infield.

The other move came when the Pirates recalled catcher Eric Fryer from AAA to fill in for a short amount of time while Rod Barajas is day-to-day with his knee injury suffered in the second inning of last nights game in Philadelphia Fryer has been terrible in AAA so I'm not going to even give you any stats to show it, because they are so bad you probably don't even want to see them. 

To make room for Fryer the Pirates sent down left handed reliever Doug Slaten to Indianapolis. Slaten had a 2.77 ERA in ten appearances this year for the Pirates for a total of thirteen innings pitched. This now gives the Pirates only one left handed option out of the pen in Tony Watson, so I wouldn't be surprised if Slaten is called up later in the year again to give the team another option.