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Pirates set wild-card roster for tonight's game against Cubs

By Bill Brink 8 years ago

Behold, the Pirates’ wild-card roster:

Pitchers

Gerrit Cole (starter)

Francisco Liriano (L)

Antonio Bastardo (L)

Joe Blanton

Arquimedes Caminero

Jared Hughes

Mark Melancon

Joakim Soria

Tony Watson (L)

Catchers

Francisco Cervelli

Elias Diaz

Chris Stewart

Infielders

Pedro Alvarez (L)

Pedro Florimon (S)

Josh Harrison

Jordy Mercer

Michael Morse

Aramis Ramirez

Sean Rodriguez

Neil Walker (S)

Outfielders

Keon Broxton

Starling Marte

Andrew McCutchen

Gregory Polanco (L)

Travis Snider (L)

There are no real surprises here other than perhaps the omission of lefty Bobby LaFromboise, who might have been useful against Kyle Schwarber, Anthony Rizzo or Miguel Montero. Lefties were 3 for 19 with eight strikeouts against him this year, but Jason Heyward also just hit a grand slam against him when he was brought in for a left-on-left matchup.

Others left off: Jeff Locke, Rob Scahill, Vance Worley, Travis Ishikawa, Jaff Decker.