It's baseball - get healthy, get strong, and hope for an opportunity. As you pointed out, he is doing much better for AA than he was at A+, and maybe he can carry that into mid-season, getting a Start or two along the way. Pitching is the Gold Standard, and his having been a successful SP for an SEC school in college is just icing on the cake for him, and the Pirates - if they recognize needs in the lineup and want to use our positional excesses as trade chips!
It's baseball - get healthy, get strong, and hope for an opportunity. As you pointed out, he is doing much better for AA than he was at A+, and maybe he can carry that into mid-season, getting a Start or two along the way. Pitching is the Gold Standard, and his having been a successful SP for an SEC school in college is just icing on the cake for him, and the Pirates - if they recognize needs in the lineup and want to use our positional excesses as trade chips!