STEVE LERUD RUMORS & GOSSIP

The Phillies continue to stock their farm system with marginal players. New to the party on minor league deals are Dave Bush, David Purcey, and Steve Lerud.Bush (player not trendy alt-rock band) is an 8 year vet of the Majors. He's pitched for the Blue Jays, Brewers, and Rangers compiling a 56-69 record to go along with a 4.70 ERA/1.31 WHIP. He ended last season with the Lehigh...

Bob Dutton tweets that the Royals have traded minor league catcher Steve Lerud to the Orioles for a player to be named later.

Friday, the Pirates assigned pitchers Virgil Vasquez and Eric Hacker outright to Triple-A Indianapolis and catcher Steve Lerud outright to Double-A Altoona.

According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Pittsburgh Pirates have designated three players for assignment. Those players are Virgil Vasquez, Eric Hacker, and Steve Lerud. All three players will have ten days to be traded, claimed by another team, or released. The likely outcome would be that the players either get claimed by another team, and added to that team's 40-man roster, or they

The Bucs pared down their roster a bit more today, with Pedro Alvarez being sent to Lynchburg as the headliner. There's a cautionary message from Neal Huntington about Pedro staying in shape, but Lynchburg was always the highest level that was said to be an option for him, so I think it's safe to say that he did enough between mini-camp and spring training to atone for his supposedly...

Not much happening on this snowy Friday. The biggest news is something most of us knew a long time ago: John Van Benschoten will not pitch for the Pirates again. He [opted for minor league free agency today].Here is pretty much all you need to know about JVB:1. He was drafted by the Bucs in the ...

In a move that I was waiting for all day but really isn't very exciting, the Pirates added 5 minor leaguers to the 40-man roster (to avoid exposing them in the Rule-5 Draft). Today was the deadline for such moves.---Jose Tabata and Neil Walker are no-brainers. Jeff Sues was our system's minor ...

Looking for anything to post about on a slow day (tomorrow: Road to 17: 1995), I decided to look at the Fall Ball stats. Bad idea. Check out some of these OPSs:Steve Pearce (Mexico)- .638Jose Tabata (Venezuela)- .678Jamie Romak (AFL)- .772Steve Lerud (AFL)- .412Jim Negrych (Hawaii)- .640The one ...