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Pittsburgh Pirates: Mitch Keller’s Promotion Comes With Big Expectations

For a couple of weeks now, the Pittsburgh Pirates have skated by with a makeshift rotation. With starters Jameson Taillon and Trevor Williams on the Injured List, the team has used a variety of Steven Brault, Nick Kingham, and reliever openers. Quite frankly, the strategy has been a disaster and the Bucs have continued to throw the games away using these pitchers.

With all the struggles, the fans, reporters, writers, and everyone else has asked why the Pittsburgh Pirates will not just call up an actual starter? More specifically, why are they not calling up their top pitching, and overall, prospect Mitch Keller?