Notes: Sounds of Silence...

The FO is kinda slow outta the box...the Winter Meetings start December 3rd, the draft is on the 5th and Rule 5 draft is the next day, so maybe those will start the ball rolling.

Notes:

• The news concerning 26-year-old RHP Johan Oviedo is about as feared - he's getting TJ surgery and will be out for the year. Gonna be an interesting rotation this season.

No Johan this year - 2023 photo/Pirates

• The Pirates signed OF Gilberto Celestino to a minor league deal after he had been DFA'ed by Minnesota. Celestino played 122 games with the Twins in 2022, hitting .238. A speed/glove guy, he had thumb surgery in '23 and then spent the second half of the year in AAA, batting .243 in 55 games. He's also out of options. 
• Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo of MLB Pipeline picked 10 early candidates for 2024's Rookie-of-the-Year; the Pirates RHP Paul Skenes was one of choices.
• The Yankees signed righty reliever Yerry De Los Santos, who recorded a 3.33 ERA in 22 outings with the Pirates last year.
• Recently non-tendered RHP Osvaldo Bido and the Oakland A’s signed him to a split contract. He earns $750K in the show/$200K if on the farm.
• Tim Laker, a catcher who appeared in 20 games for the Pirates in 1998-99 and has been a minor league manager/hitting coach since 2006, was hired as the Los Angeles Angels' Offensive Coordinator by new skipper Ron Washington.