{"id":79188,"date":"2024-07-07T17:13:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T21:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=79188"},"modified":"2024-07-07T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T21:13:07","slug":"pirates-falter-injured-list-roster-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/07\/pirates-falter-injured-list-roster-moves\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Pirates Starting Pitcher Goes on IL, Among Other Roster Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates made four roster moves on Sunday, most significantly sending starting pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/falteba01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-07_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bailey Falter<\/a> to the injured list. To take Falter\u2019s place on the active roster, the Pirates selected the contract of pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/honeybr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-07_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brent Honeywell Jr.<\/a> To make room for Honeywell on the 40-man roster, pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bruihju01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-07_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justin Bruihl<\/a> was designated for assignment. Finally, catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/davishe01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-07_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Henry Davis<\/a> was activated from the IL and, to the surprise of nobody, sent to the minor leagues.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have selected the contract of RHP Brent Honeywell Jr. from Triple-A Indianapolis and placed LHP Bailey Falter on the 15-day injured list. To make room for Honeywell Jr. on the 40-man roster, LHP Justin Bruihl has been designated for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, C Henry Davis had\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pittsburgh Pirates (@Pirates) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pirates\/status\/1809975056241459353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Pirates&#8217; Bailey Falter Goes on IL, Among Other Roster Moves<\/h2>\n<p>Falter left Saturday\u2019s start against the New York Mets at PNC Park in the third inning after the Mets loaded the bases with nobody out. Falter felt something in his elbow. The official word is that the left-hander is out with left triceps tendinitis.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a big blow to the Pirates, who also placed starter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=jonesja09,jones-013jar&amp;search=Jared+Jones&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-07_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jared Jones<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/04\/jared-jones-injured-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">on the IL<\/a> this week. An unpopular choice to break camp and be awarded a starting berth, Falter silenced the critics with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/20\/falter-pirates-starting-rotation\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">stellar work<\/a>. At the end of May, he had an ERA of 3.22. He\u2019s since come back to Earth a bit, sporting a 4-7 record, 4.08 ERA, and 1.196 WHIP, although many of those losses were low-scoring games where he got no support.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unknown at this time how long Falter will be out. As with Jones, the only bright spot is that the All-Star break is coming next week.<\/p>\n<h3>Honeywell In, Bruihl Out<\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s unknown at this time how Honeywell, who the Pirates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/sports\/pirates\/2024\/02\/08\/pirates-reliever-brent-honeywell-minor-league-screwball-rays-depth\/stories\/202402080085\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed<\/a> in the spring, fits in. This is the right-handed journeyman\u2019s fifth organization since he was a second-round pick of the Tampa Bay Rays in 2014. In two major league seasons with three teams, he\u2019s 2-4 with a 5.08 ERA and 1.482 WHIP. Those seasons encompassed 43 games, all but two of which were in relief. Honeywell has been used strictly in relief for Triple-A Indianapolis as well, where he\u2019s sported a 4.85 ERA and 1.359 WHIP. It\u2019s unlikely the Pirates will use him to replace Falter in the rotation, and thus more roster moves may be on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a tough break for Bruihl, who the Pirates <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/06\/pirates-sign-justin-briuhl\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">signed<\/a> on June 6, only to bounce him back and forth from Pittsburgh to Indy like a pinball. The left-hander pitched 5 2\/3 innings in seven games for the Bucs, yielding a 9.53 ERA. He began his time with Pittsburgh with four scoreless outings before things unraveled for him.<\/p>\n<h3>Davis Staying Down<\/h3>\n<p>As for Davis, keeping him in the minors for more work is the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/27\/pirates-henry-davis-rehab-assignment\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">right move<\/a>. He had an uphill climb to stay with the big club anyway. The Pirates won\u2019t eat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/grandya01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-07_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yasmani Grandal<\/a>\u2019s salary. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bartjo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-07_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joey Bart<\/a> is out of options and playing well. Davis didn\u2019t help his cause with his disappointing season, either. He\u2019s hit .153\/.267\/.235, 1 HR, 5 RBI, and a 46 OPS+. He doesn\u2019t seem to have a path to Pittsburgh this season, barring a trade or an injury to a catcher.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Stan Szeto-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates made four roster moves on Sunday, most significantly sending starting pitcher Bailey Falter to the injured list. To take Falter\u2019s place on the active roster, the Pirates selected the contract of pitcher Brent Honeywell Jr. To make room for Honeywell on the 40-man roster, pitcher Justin Bruihl was designated for assignment. Finally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5010,"featured_media":79206,"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":[26,1071,35],"tags":[6258,4875,3718,5766,2255],"class_list":["post-79188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pirates","category-mlb","category-news","tag-bailey-falter","tag-henry-davis","tag-jared-jones","tag-joey-bart","tag-yasmani-grandal"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79188","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\/5010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}