The Pittsburgh Pirates promoted Gorkys Hernandez to the majors today, while also making a few other moves that brought up Steve Lombardozzi and sent out Jose Tabata and Chris Volstad. In today's meeting with the media, Neal Huntington discussed why the Pirates brought up Hernandez.
"Quite honestly we wanted to take a look and see what he would bring in comparison to Jose," Huntington said. "We know there’s a gamble we could lose Volstad, we know there’s a gamble we could lose Jose but we wanted to re-balance the position player pitcher group to 12 and 13, take look at Gorkys Hernandez and his versatility to the club.