{"id":81291,"date":"2024-07-25T20:15:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T00:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=81291"},"modified":"2024-07-25T20:04:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T00:04:24","slug":"pirates-bryan-reynolds-bereavement-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/25\/pirates-bryan-reynolds-bereavement-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates All-Star to Miss Crucial Series in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/reynobr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-25_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bryan Reynolds<\/a> has been placed on the bereavement list before their upcoming series in Arizona. The Pirates and Diamondbacks are idle on Thursday and will play three games at Chase Field beginning on Friday. Both teams are in the National League Wild Card race, with Arizona (53-50) a half-game back and Pittsburgh (52-50) a game back of the final spot entering Thursday\u2019s light schedule.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have placed OF Bryan Reynolds on the Major League Bereavement List.<\/p>\n<p>We will add another player to the roster for tomorrow&#8217;s game and will announce that move accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pittsburgh Pirates (@Pirates) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pirates\/status\/1816581502051725332?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Pirates All-Star Reynolds on Bereavement List, to Miss Crucial Series in Arizona<\/h2>\n<p>Diamondbacks fans are rejoicing on social media about the fact that they\u2019ll miss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/skenepa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-25_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Skenes<\/a> during this series. Now they\u2019ll miss the Pirates\u2019 other All-Star, too, at least for the first two games. The minimum stay on the bereavement list is three days, meaning Reynolds could join the Pirates on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds once again has been the Pirates\u2019 best player and one of baseball\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/01\/27\/top-5-left-fielders-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">top left fielders<\/a> in 2024. The switch-hitter is hitting .288\/.353\/.485 with 18 HR, 61 RBI, and a 137 OPS+. At the end of May, he was batting just .249\/.320\/.402. It looked like a continuation of his <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/07\/20\/bryan-reynolds-struggles\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">so-so 2023 season<\/a>. However, he\u2019s been on a tear since then. In June and July, he\u2019s hitting .339\/.397\/.593, 11 HR, and 31 RBI. He\u2019s been credited with a 1.914 WPA over that period.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds has been a reliable iron man for the Pirates, too. He hadn\u2019t missed a game all season long until Wednesday night\u2019s 5-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals when he sat out with back spasms. He was feeling better during that game and Pittsburgh expected him back in the lineup against Arizona. That\u2019s all moot now. It will cause some shuffling in the Pirates lineup, possibly with players in reverse-platoon situations. The Pirates have won 10 of their last 13, which included taking series against the Milwaukee Brewers, Cardinals, and Philadelphia Phillies. They come to Arizona as a confident team, so it will be interesting to see how Reynolds\u2019s absence affects them. The Diamondbacks are equally confident, having gone 14-7 in their last 21 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates added speedy outfielder\/second baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/baeji01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-25_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ji Hwan Bae<\/a> to the taxi squad. Although no formal announcement has been made, it\u2019s clear that he\u2019ll be added to the Pirates roster while Reynolds is on bereavement leave.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Bryan Reynolds has been placed on the bereavement list before their upcoming series in Arizona. The Pirates and Diamondbacks are idle on Thursday and will play three games at Chase Field beginning on Friday. Both teams are in the National League Wild Card race, with Arizona (53-50) a half-game back and Pittsburgh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5010,"featured_media":81297,"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":[326,1374,6221,6371],"class_list":["post-81291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pirates","category-mlb","category-news","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-bryan-reynolds","tag-ji-hwan-bae","tag-paul-skenes"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81291","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=81291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}