Stuff since the shutdown...
- The Bucs optioned a handful of guys to Indy; for a couple, they may have been short-circuited by camp closing early and available minor league options/service time than by their play. They are 3B Ke'Bryan Hayes, SS Cole Tucker, OF Jason Martin, and P's Edgar Santana, Geoff Hartlieb, Sam Howard & Yacksel Rios.
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| Tuck off to Indy - 2019 Panini Chronicles |
- The hiatus will allow Steven Brault, Clay Holmes and even Chad Kuhl some added recovery time; whether that's a blessing or complication for roster construction remains to be seen...
- The Pirates were a healthy bunch: None of them presented any symptoms and so they weren't tested for coronavirus in Bradenton.
- The season isn't expected to open in April; it looks more like a June opening, dependent on how severe/mild the outbreak proves to be.
- The Bucco camp is closed to everyone except players and staff - no media or family. With camp quashed, the player options are return to their offseason homes, stay in their training camp towns or travel to their team's home city. The Bucs scattered, though a few players and some of the coaching staff stayed in Florida to work out.
- Bryan & Blair Reynolds are expecting a child. Congrats!
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| The happy couple droppin' a hint... |
- Tho it was shuffled and short-circuited, Steve Adams of MLB Trade Rumors has the Pirates Offseason Review. Some baseball stuff did happen, ya know...
- Minor leaguers who were in camp are getting a $400/week allowance until their original start date of April 8th; it's pending after that. Park employees are being paid out of a $30M fund that the teams are putting together. More compensation issues are down the road, but the first patch has been applied.
- Jared Hughes was released by the Astros, reportedly at his own request after hitting his opt-out date.
- The Nats released reliever Hunter Strickland, 31,who was a Pirates property through 2012 and has put six MLB seasons under his belt since.
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