CINCINNATI — At 3:52 p.m. Friday, eight minutes before the non-waiver trade deadline, reliever Joakim Soria, perhaps the Pirates’ top deadline acquisition, strolled into the visitors clubhouse at Great American Ball Park, luggage in tow.
Soria, a former Detroit Tigers closer acquired Thursday for minor league shortstop Jacoby Jones, circled the room meeting his new teammates and settled into a locker between fellow relievers Tony Watson and Arquimedes Caminero. Soria was in a similar, unsettled spot a year ago when he was shipped from the Texas Rangers to the Tigers.