Pirates Journal

Chris Kline at Baseball America recently wrote up a nice story on Pirates signee and Cuban defector Serguey Linares.  He hasn’t thrown in a while, but the Pirates got him for only $125,000 so he’s probably worth taking a flier on.  And he’s only 23 but it looks like an injury has taken some mph’s off of his fastball so we’ll see how he does.  I think I remember reading that he’ll start at either High A or Low A so it’ll be interesting to keep an eye on Linares to see how he progresses.