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Nick Kingham Optioned to Indianapolis; Osuna Expected to be Recalled

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Pirates Prospects has learned that the Pittsburgh Pirates have optioned Nick Kingham to Indianapolis on Monday. The move is not surprising with the team not needing a fifth starter until May 19th due to off-days today, Thursday and next Monday. Expect a move to fill the 25-man roster tomorrow due to the off-day today, with Jose Osuna being a likely addition with the Pirates moving to an American League park for the next two days.

Kingham made two starts with the Pirates, throwing seven shutout innings on one hit in his debut, before allowing four runs over 5.1 innings on Friday. Being sent down will allow him to make two more starts and still be in line to start on the 19th if the Pirates decide to recall him that day. It appears that Joe Musgrove isn’t a possibility for May 19th due to his schedule to get him fully stretched out, so Kingham could be back soon.

Also on Monday, the Pittsburgh Pirates released pitcher Sam Street, who was with Altoona earlier this season for three appearances, but has been off of the roster recently due to a surplus of pitchers with the Curve. Street was a 16th round draft pick in 2014, who spent the past two seasons with Bradenton. He put up solid numbers, but as a soft-tossing right-handed pitcher who relied on deception, he had a tough climb to the majors.

UPDATE 3:41 PM: Pirates announce the Kingham option, along with mentioning that Jose Osuna is expected to be recalled tomorrow. As mentioned above and also earlier today in The 21 article, the move with Osuna was expected. He is hitting .359/.409/.628 through 23 games with Indianapolis and also homered in his only game with the Pirates earlier this year.

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John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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