Morning Rundown: Pirates drop second straight against Reds, Bidois promoted
Morning Rundown: Pirates drop second straight against Reds, Bidois promoted
Pirates lose another game, Brandan Bidois returns from injured list
The Cincinnati Reds jumped all over Jared Jones on Saturday and are one game away from sweeping the Pirates.
Jones allowed six earned runs on six hits and three walks over five innings. During that fifth, it appeared that the velocity for Jones was starting to take a dip, registering in the low 90s with his fastball, even one that was 85 mph.
Derek Shelton and the trainer came to check on Jones during the fifth, and after a brief conference, left him in the game to finish out the inning.
There were times when Jones looked like something was visibly off, and he even grunted when he pitched.
After the game, it was reported that he was fine and that the 85 mph fastball was from Jones hurrying as the pitch clock wound down.
According to the transaction log, relief prospect Brandan Bidois was promoted to Triple-A Indianapolis on Saturday.
Bidois, 23, last pitched for the Greensboro Grasshoppers on July 5. Up to that point in the season he had a 4.25 ERA, with 43 strikeouts and 17 walks in 29.2 innings pitched.
This would make him an interesting candidate to pitch in the Arizona Fall League, as it wouldn’t make much sense to activate him for basically one game.
Former Pirates’ prospect Jun-Seok Shim will participate in the Arizona Fall League for the Miami Marlins.
Shim, 20, has yet to pitch this season, and has just eight innings of pro ball experience over the last two years.
RHP Brandan Bidois assigned to Indianapolis Indians from Greensboro Grasshoppers
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Top Exit Velocity
Nick Yorke - PIT - 109.3 mph - Groundout
Nick Gonzales - PIT - 106.3 mph - Single
Billy Cook - PIT - 106.1 mph - Single
Connor Joe - PIT - 105.4 mph - Single
Malcom Nunez - IND - 104.2 mph - Groundout
Joshua Palacios - IND - 104.2 mph - Home Run
Top Pitch Velocity
Jared Jones - PIT - 99.2 mph
Jared Jones - PIT - 99.1 mph
Jared Jones - PIT - 98.6 mph
Jared Jones - PIT - 98.6 mph
Jared Jones - PIT - 98.3 mph
Most Whiffs
Jared Jones - PIT - 11
Geronimo Franzua - IND - 6
Aaron Shortridge - IND - 4
Indianapolis Indians - vs
Top Hitter - Jake Lamb: 2-4, R, 3 RBI, HR
Top Pitcher - Geronimo Franzua: IP, 2 H, 3 K
Worth remembering Shelton held a team meeting first day(s) of ST announcing to all that a winning season is the goal/expectations, that playoffs were the target. That this season was going to be different than the past 4. The media covered his remarks too. And so by Aug. 11 we were done, out of the WC race at 8 games under .500. There are consequences for failing to achieve even low bar goals, why should the Pirates be exempt from
consequences. Both BC and DS and a couple coaches need let go. The product on the field since the deadline has fell far short. But we have an owner that isn't pro-active, is a procrastinator, doesn't want the hassle on his plate to make changes because these two are exceptionally good corporate yes men.
Still three games back of 4th place in Tankathon even. We're bad but not bad enough.