The Pirates are in agreement with Jose Rojas on a minor league contract, tweets Noah Hiles of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He was assigned to Triple-A Indianapolis.
Rojas, 31, has 83 games of MLB experience. That came entirely with the Angels between 2021-22. He struggled to a .188/.245/.339 slash line while striking out at a 28.6% clip across 241 plate appearances. Rojas hasn’t gotten to the big leagues in the past two years, but he has had a nice year in Triple-A. After signing an offseason minor league deal with the Yankees, he hit .254/.359/.561 with 18 home runs over 67 games for their top affiliate in Scranton. The Yankees nevertheless didn’t buy into his form, as they released him a couple weeks ago rather than add him to a struggling MLB infield.
A left-handed hitter, Rojas owns a .273/.346/.532 slash in nearly 1500 plate appearances at the Triple-A level. He’s capable of playing all four corner positions and has some second base experience. Rojas has primarily played the corner infield spots in the minors. He adds a versatile lefty bat as non-roster depth to the Pittsburgh system.
Someone getting traded
Given his offensive numbers, he’ll fit right in and may get a start soon
not mentioned here but they traded an outfielder that had been assigned to Altoona to the Cubs for cash considerations
Probably Peguero:(
Good call!! Suwinski and Trillio for Beday.
ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce to you the annual trading deadline dumpster diving event brought to you by the Pittsburgh Pirates
There he is ¡¡
It’s like clock work, for the pirates and for you.
Explain how this isn’t a dumpster diving move, Putt?
And I call it like I see it
How has this site said nothing about Trout?
conspiracy¡¡¡
It seems a little bit fishy to me.
Yeah, there’s one of those deals Big Ben said he was able to make right now. I gave him the benefit of the doubt for a while as this is a cheap team but his lack of urgency is really starting to frustrate me. They will have a very weak trade deadline, probably get rid of 1-2 bench players, low tier starters (Bae, Pegeuro), complain about the asking prices, meanwhile the Padres, Cardinals, and Mets will all acquire impact players without hurting their farm or losing top prospects. Prove me wrong please.
This isn’t their major league acquisitio. That’s coming
I’m actually hoping they do nothing
All it’s going to take to get a WC berth is to be around .500. They can do that without trading prospects or bringing in guys who are salary dumps
They’re likely a season away from doing any kind of real damage as their young players mature. Stand pat. Shock the world and sign a bat or two this off season. And steer clear of the dumpster this season
They’ll sit back and pick up whoever no one wants. Could get something good. Arizona just got Puk for a bargain. Maybe someone falls in love with Pirates weaker prospects. If not rentals are fine.
I agree, holecamels35, there’s no urgency to improve this team by Cherington
Had he been truly serious about being contenders, he wouldn’t be wasting until the last week of the trading deadline to make any moves
The other day, BC said that he was happy with the current players and believes in them?
Really? He’s happy that they are near the bottom in runs scored? Happy they are last in the league in batting average? Second in strikeouts?
Cherington must think all fans are blind to the failures of this team’s offense
Jose rakes in any level except for the MLB. Worth bringing in to get a closer look
It just a minor league deal but really doesn’t need to do much to improve the offense so he’ll probably get a week or two worth of games pending any other moves.
Josh palacios was a MINOR league rule 5 pick. So…
Rojas is likely the replacement as AAA depth for Palacios who’s out of options and will surely be DFA’d by deadline day.
agreed
Won’t be long until he will have to find a career in landscaping if he wants to rake.
They need to find versatility after trading Suwinski and Trillio to the A’s
Lol its Trio – lo lol
Wny do the A’s want those scrubs?
Putting Bae on the taxi squad (most likely replacing Reynolds who is on the bereavement list) and opening up another slot at AAA by trading Gilberto Celestine to the Cubs a few hours ago, set up some room for Rojas. Good depth move. I thought the Pirates would have went after Jackie Bradley Jr. after his stint with the Ducks, but the Mets grabbed him first.
Good depth move for Class AAA. Stop drinking the Kool-Aid.
Well, the Pirates have made their big splash before the trade deadline. The pennant is in the bag.
And there is your big deadline move by the Pittsburgh Pirates. Bob Nutting rummages around his car for some spare change to buy a cheap minor leaguer. Get ready for the Chapman salary dump.
Wow…. Mariners give up a couple of middling prospects for a very good OF bat and BC couldn’t do any better?
I really hope he has a plan for the deadline because any team with Suwinski and Palacios listed as starters isn’t sniffing the playoffs (MAT too but I still give him a pass as a 5th OF with speed & D).
Skenes will likely win NLROY so there’s only four seasons left after this and they’ll be shopping him prior to the last one.
Three years left Ben – do something!