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P2Live: Pirates Take a Quick Trip to Detroit

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The Pittsburgh Pirates (22-19) are on the road for a two-game series against the Detroit Tigers (18-21), starting on Tuesday night at 6:40 PM for the first pitch.

The Pirates are sending out Luis Ortiz (0-1, 3.60) for his second start of the season. He will be taking on veteran right-hander Michael Lorenzen (1-2, 4.18), who is making his sixth start of the seasons.

Here are some news items since our last game discussion on Sunday

**Plenty of minor league moves today, some of them rehab assignments

**Pirates Prospects Daily: A Florida State League Showdown Headlines the Week for Pirates Affiliates

**On Saturday we noted that there is a clear group of five top prospects this year. Three of those players had big games last week. Plenty of video here to watch.

**Henry Davis impresses once again, while pitcher JP Massey has an outstanding start. Here’s the look at the top ten hitters and top ten pitchers for the Pirates last week.

**Mitch Keller gets some recognition from the National League for his great week.

**MLB Pipeline updated their top 100 prospects list on Monday. Three Pirates moved up, one moved down.

**On the history side, today’s Card of the Day article looks at a special card put out by Topps for Drew Maggi

**Today’s daily history has updated/extended bios for five players born on May 16th, including Rick Rhoden and Rick Reuschel

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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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