Huntington updates: Sadler, Hanson, Lambo

Pirates general manager Neal Huntington addressed the media prior to today’s game. Some highlights:

On the rehab of Gorkys Hernadez and Rob Scahill: Gorkys has been out and has played a couple games in Indianapolis and looks healthy. Our anticipation is, if he continues this way, we'll activate him and have to make a decision with him on day 16. In Rob's case, working through the throwing progression, feeling better

We're making great progress, but still a ways away from game activity for Rob.

We might send Rob back to Florida and let him get built up down there as he's ready to start facing some hitters. It's easier to put together a sim game in Florida than it in a big league ballpark.

On the trade deadline: As you get closer to the deadline, there are more teams that tend to realize maybe the math is working against them.

We'd still like to add to this club. We shored up what we felt like was our biggest soft spot, but that doesn't mean we're done.

On Justin Sellers, who was outrighted to the minors:

We were able to secure outright waivers with him and outright him without ever having to put him technically back on ... because it was one singular move, we reinstated him and outrighted him all in one move.

On A.J. Burnett and any expected regression: He had a remarkable first half. But we expect that A.J.'s going to continue to go out and be a pitcher that gives us a legitimate chance to win every time he takes the baseball. I think he acknowledged he made some mistakes in the middle of the plate last night. Good hitters tend not to miss pitches in the middle of the plate very often and they made him pay for it.

On Casey Sadler: Casey's scuffling a little bit, still trying to work through the soreness and the discomfort. Good days, bad days, unfortunately probably more bad days than good days right now. We're in the process of getting him a second opinion and try to give him some clarity, give us some clarity, as to what is going on in there and why he's continued to have some discomfort. (Note: Sadler posted a picture of himself at the Dr. James Andrews’ sports medicine clinic, a post that appears to have since been removed).

On Andrew Lambo: Andrew Lambo has had a setback in his plantar fasciitis. We've had him see a doctor, he's gotten an [anti-inflammatory] injection. The injection leads to about a three-week shutdown and then we'll ramp him back up and try to get him back going again. He had progressed into some baseball activity and was progressing well and came in with similar pain with what he had the first time we shut it down.

On the team’s plans for Alen Hanson: The original plan was to let Alen settle in at second this year and let the bat play. Let him play one position in games, bounce him to short and second in pre-game work, which he's done pretty much all year. There was going to come a point in time where we'd bounce him to third, try to introduce third base to him. We talked long-term about the outfield as well. Just trying to get the young man as many options to break onto a major league club as possible. With Jordy and Josh going down, we sped that time frame up a little bit. He's obviously swung the bat and done a real nice job down there offensively. Continued to work at short, introduced third base to him, again a little bit earlier than we'd initially planned on. We'll see how it goes. We'll see how the work plays out, if we feel he can play there. If he can be major league caliber there, then we'll continue it. If we don't then we'll short-change it and let him focus back again on second base and shortstop.