Oh, Ashton Goudreau, we hardly knew ye.
The Pirates picked up the young right-hander off waivers from the Colorado Rockies on November twenty-sixth, only to place him on waivers themselves on Monday. Goudreau wasn’t out there for long, getting pretty promptly scooped up by the Baltimore Orioles a few hours later.
With Goudreau’s departure, that brings the Bucs’ current roster number to thirty-eight, since infielder Will Craig was DFA’d, then outrighted to AAA Indianapolis. It is now practically a certainty that Ben Cherington is planning to pick up someone in the Rule 5 Draft on Thursday. A hundred thousand dollars and a roster space is a small price to pay, even for Bob Nutting.