We're now two weeks away from the deadline to add eligible prospects to the 40-man roster in order to protect them from the Rule 5 draft. During the summer, I wrote about the amount of players that the Pirates have eligible for the draft this year, noting that they'll have some interesting decisions to make, and some potential trade chips. Since that article, they've traded two of the eligible players (Adrian Sampson and Yhonathan Barrios) and have added a few guys to the 40-man roster.
The latest addition came today, when the team added Gift Ngoepe to the 40-man, which prevents him from becoming a minor league free agent and signing elsewhere.