The Pittsburgh Pirates have purchased the contract of Pedro Florimon from the Bristol Pirates. To make room on the 40-man roster, they have transferred Deolis Guerra from the 15-day DL to the 60-day DL.
As I mentioned on Sunday, Florimon was one of six players who were getting called up from Triple-A (along with Rob Scahill being activated from the disabled list). The Pirates couldn’t bring Florimon up yesterday, due to his outright assignment being less than ten days ago. To work around that, they sent him to Bristol, who saw their season end yesterday. As a result, they were able to call him up today, the first day after Bristol’s season, and get him up without having to wait ten days since his outright assignment.
Florimon will give the Pirates a strong defensive option at shortstop, although they’ve got that with Jordy Mercer right now. He could also be used as a pinch runner.
