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Minor Moves: Osvaldo Bido Promoted to Bradenton

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The Pittsburgh Pirates have made some minor league moves including a promotion of one of their top minor league starting pitchers.

Osvaldo Bido has been promoted to Bradenton after posting a 3.55 ERA over 20 starts with Greensboro. The 23-year-old right-hander has thrown 111.2 innings this season, with a 90:27 SO/BB ratio, a .228 BAA and a 1.10 WHIP. Bido gets up to the mid-90s as a starter and has a strong four-pitch mix. Just two years ago at this time he was a rookie in the DSL who was dealing with major control issues.

Right-hander Noe Toribio replaces Bido at Greensboro. At 19 years old, he will be one of the youngest pitchers in the South Atlantic League. Toribio had a 2.40 ERA in 30 innings with Morgantown, with 31 strikeouts, a .185 BAA and an 0.93 WHIP. He throws low-90s, with a lot of life on his fastball and a sharp breaking ball that he uses as a strikeout pitch. Toribio is a real sleeper prospect, who might not be considered a sleeper anymore at this time next year.

Trey McGough has been promoted from Bristol to Morgantown. He just pitched three innings yesterday for Bristol to pick up his first pro save. In 17.1 innings, he has a 1.04 ERA and 26 strikeouts, along with a 1.04 WHIP, a .197 BAA and a 1.70 GO/AO ratio. He was the 24th round pick in this year’s draft.

Lizardy Dicent moved his rehab from the GCL to Bristol, taking the place of McGough. Dicent gave up one run over 2.2 innings in three GCL appearances. He throws mid-90s and rose from the DSL to Bristol last year in his first season of pro ball, but was injured this spring.

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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