With today being the first official workout by pitchers and catchers in big league camp I figured it would be a good time to highlight the players not on the 40-man roster who will be attending camp in the hopes to play their way onto the team.
Gerrit Cole
The Pirates have made it a tradition that their 1st round draft picks from the previous year gets invited to the big league camp and you can 100% expect that Cole will be starting the season in the minor leagues, but this should still be a great experience for him and will provide him some competition against Major League caliber talent. Cole made his professional debut in the Arizona Fall League last season and in 5 starts, went 2-0 with a 3.00 ERA in 15 innings where he struck out 16 batters.
Michael Crotta
Crotta surprised us all last season when he made the trip north with the club following a successful spring campaign. His first taste of the bigs didn’t go great as he posted a 9.28 ERA over 10 2/3 innings. Injuries sid...
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Juan Cruz,
Ryota Igarashi,
Logan Kensing,
Shairon Martis,
Jo-Jo Reyes,
Doug Slaten,
Tim Wood
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