Pirates call up Jeff Clement

The Pirates have called up Jeff Clement from Triple-A Indianapolis and swapped Yamaico Navarro to Indy to clear his spot. Clement will be back in the majors for the first time since 2010. This isn’t a very big move by any means; just a bench swap. Clement provides some power from the left side, and has had a pretty solid and consistent season in Indianapolis. He hit 16 homers with Indy and posted a .276 average and .825 OPS over 112 games. We last saw Clement in Pittsburgh two years ago, when the Pirates experiment of making him their full-time first baseman failed miserably (.201 with 7 homers over 54 games). He certainly won’t be getting starts over Garrett Jones (or even Gaby Sanchez) any time soon, but should provide a better pinch-hit option than what the Pirates were working with over the last few weeks. Plenty of people have been calling for him for a while now–and while I don’t see him as a big solution to anything, I certainly don’t have a problem with bringing him up. I do...