{"id":78630,"date":"2024-06-30T20:43:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T00:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=78630"},"modified":"2024-06-30T20:43:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T00:43:55","slug":"pirates-activate-bart-option-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/30\/pirates-activate-bart-option-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Shake Up Their Catcher Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates shifted around the catchers on their roster on Sunday, activating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bartjo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-01_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joey Bart<\/a> from the injured list and optioning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/delayja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-01_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jason Delay<\/a> to Triple-A Indianapolis. Bart went on the 10-day IL on May 28 with a thumb injury, but ended up missing a month. Delay was optioned after receiving little playing time at the major league level.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have activated C Joey Bart from the 10-day injured list, and optioned C Jason Delay to Triple-A Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pittsburgh Pirates (@Pirates) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pirates\/status\/1807422238523547888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Pirates Activate Joey Bart from IL<\/h2>\n<p>Bart was one of Pittsburgh&#8217;s offseason acquisitions over the winter, coming over in a trade with the San Francisco Giants. With up-and-coming catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/davishe01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-01_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Henry Davis<\/a> already on the roster, the deal appeared <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/05\/pirates-trade-catcher-bart\/\" target=\"_self\">questionable<\/a> at first. However, nearly every Pirates catcher, including Bart and Davis, has dealt with injury this year. So, at least for this year&#8217;s Pirates team, they can never have too many catchers. With Davis in the midst of a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/27\/pirates-henry-davis-rehab-assignment\/\" target=\"_self\">rehab assignment<\/a>, Bart&#8217;s presence on the roster will become valuable once again.<\/p>\n<p>In 23 games this season, the 27-year-old backstop is slashing .250\/.342\/.484 with four homers, 12 RBI, and three doubles. Even with limited playing time, his OPS of .826 isn&#8217;t half bad. In fact, it would be a career-high if he could stay near that level the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<h3>Jason Delay Optioned to Triple-A<\/h3>\n<p>Delay has gotten even fewer reps behind the plate than Bart this year. After getting over 100 at-bats with Pittsburgh for each of the last two seasons, the 29-year-old has only appeared in seven games this year. In 15 at-bats, he has three hits (all doubles) and six RBI. While offense is not his strong suit, doubles seem to be a specialty for Delay, as he also had 11 last season in limited action. Delay will now join Davis at Triple-A Indianapolis, so it appears, at least in the short term, that Bart will get most of the reps behind the plate for Pittsburgh. A platoon with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/grandya01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-01_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yasmani Grandal<\/a> remains possible, but his .179 average doesn&#8217;t inspire much confidence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates shifted around the catchers on their roster on Sunday, activating Joey Bart from the injured list and optioning Jason Delay to Triple-A Indianapolis. Bart went on the 10-day IL on May 28 with a thumb injury, but ended up missing a month. Delay was optioned after receiving little playing time at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3931,"featured_media":78634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1071,35,26],"tags":[4875,6297,5766,2255],"class_list":["post-78630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","category-news","category-pirates","tag-henry-davis","tag-jason-delay","tag-joey-bart","tag-yasmani-grandal"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3931"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}