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Pirates Trade Aaron Slegers to Rays

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The Pittsburgh Pirates announced that they have traded right-handed pitcher Aaron Slegers to the Tampa Bay Ray in exchange for cash considerations. Slegers was designated for assignment on Thursday when the Pirates needed three 40-man roster spots to add Francisco Liriano, Melky Cabrera and JB Shuck to the Opening Day roster.

Slegers was claimed off of waivers from the Minnesota Twins in January. The 26-year-old saw parts of two season in the majors with the Twins, posting a 5.90 ERA over 29 innings.

The Pirates are still waiting on a decision with right-handed pitcher Jake Barrett, who was also DFA’d prior to Opening Day.

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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