The Pittsburgh Pirates announced a group of roster moves ahead of Friday night’s game against the Colorado Rockies. They optioned outfielder Jack Suwinski and catcher Michael Perez to Indianapolis. In their place, outfielder Cal Mitchell has been recalled from Indianapolis and Tyler Heineman rejoins the team from the Bereavement List.
Suwinski has shown off good power this year, but he’s in a major slump of late, going 0-for-28 in the last ten days, which dropped him to a .198 average, to go along with a .716 OPS, 14 homers and a 30.5% strikeout rate in 72 games.
Mitchell hit .