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Minor Moves: Travis MacGregor Placed on Disabled List; Logan Stoelke Promoted

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The Pittsburgh Pirates placed Travis MacGregor on the disabled list on Monday morning and promoted ninth round draft pick Logan Stoelke to West Virginia.

MacGregor was on the disabled list earlier this year due to a deltoid muscle injury on his pitching shoulder. He was out for five weeks before he made his return in the GCL. He was skipped a start last week and pitched just two innings yesterday on ten days rest. This latest issue is in his forearm. This season ends two weeks from today, so he could be done for the season, depending on the severity of his injury and whether the Power can make the playoffs. I inquired about him being done for the year and wasn’t given a definite yes, just that it was possible.

Stoelke has been dominating at Morgantown recently, with no runs in his last 16.2 innings and just two hits, with 24 strikeouts in his last 13.2 innings.

Some other movement at the lower levels happened today as well. Mariano Dotel, an 18-year-old shortstop in the DSL, moved up to the GCL today. That move was made necessary by Pat Dorrian leaving the GCL over the weekend to replace Sherten Apostel in Bristol. Dotel, who had a .642 OPS in the DSL, debuted in the GCL today.

Pitchers Yerry De Los Santos and Lizardy Dicent both moved from the GCL to Bristol today. Both of them started the season in the DSL. Dicent “throws gas” (mid-90s) and has 30 strikeouts in 25.1 innings this season, while holding batters to a .217 BAA in the GCL. De Los Santos has been dealing with injuries since 2015, so it’s good to see him advance two levels in one season. Batters are hitting .178 against him this year in 12.1 innings and he has 14 strikeouts.

UPDATE: Figured there could be more and two DSL pitchers are also in the GCL now. Braham Rosario and Jose Maldonado also made the jump. The 18-year-old southpaw Rosario has a 1.84 ERA in 44 innings, with a 1.16 WHIP and a .205 BAA. Maldonado made just six appearances, posting a 3.29 ERA in 13.2 innings with 17 strikeouts. He’s a 19-year-old right-handed pitcher.

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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