{"id":86647,"date":"2024-09-27T18:28:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T22:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=86647"},"modified":"2024-09-27T18:28:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T22:28:31","slug":"pirates-add-mike-burrows-taxi-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/27\/pirates-add-mike-burrows-taxi-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Add Prospect to Taxi Squad, MLB Debut Likely This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates have added right-handed pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=burrow002mic&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-27_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Burrows<\/a> to their taxi squad for Friday\u2019s game at Yankee Stadium. There has been no statement about what they intend for Burrows this weekend. However, the guess here is that he\u2019s not being brought to New York to keep the buckets of sunflower seeds filled in the dugout. It\u2019s more likely that he\u2019ll be added to the active roster on Saturday or Sunday, at which point he\u2019ll make his major league debut.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">RHP Michael Burrows has been added to the Major League Taxi Squad for today&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pittsburgh Pirates (@Pirates) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pirates\/status\/1839729529033474095?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Pirates Add Burrows to Taxi Squad, MLB Debut Likely This Weekend<\/h2>\n<p>Burrows, 24, was the Pirates\u2019 No. 11 draft choice in the 2018 June Amateur Draft. He\u2019s their No. 16 prospect according to MLB Pipeline. Burrows may not be a household name, but he\u2019s a name Pirates fans have been hearing about for some time. There was a chance that he\u2019d make his major league debut perhaps as early as 2022. But that opportunity was derailed when he injured his elbow. Then in 2023, he required Tommy John surgery after just two minor league starts.<\/p>\n<p>Burrows finally returned to action in 2024, pitching in 16 games (15 starts) at three minor league levels. Across those levels, he was 1-3 with an unimpressive 5.26 ERA and 1.539 WHIP. When he\u2019s right, he can consistently throw any of the four pitches from his arsenal for strikes. He features a riding fastball that averages 95 mph, a biting curveball, a slider, and a changeup. Apparently, he\u2019s right now. In his last outing at Triple-A Indianapolis on September 22, he tied a career-high with 10 strikeouts in five innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates will surely use this opportunity to take a look at Burrows once he\u2019s removed from the taxi squad. They\u2019ve already announced their starting rotation for the weekend series against the Yankees. Thus, Burrows will make his debut in relief. The Yankees have <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/26\/yankees-win-al-east-title-clinch-first-round-bye\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">clinched<\/a> the American League East Division title and a first-round postseason bye. We\u2019ll see whether Burrows is tested against the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/judgeaa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-27_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaron Judge<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=sotoju01,soto--004jua&amp;search=Juan+Soto&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-27_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juan Soto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Who&#8217;s Out<\/h3>\n<p>Once Burrows is added, a pitcher will have to be removed from the 28-man roster. It may be a simple move like dispatching <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/19\/pirates-jake-woodford-dfa\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">recently recalled<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mattsis01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-27_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Isaac Mattson<\/a>, who\u2019s already appeared twice, to Triple-A. Their season is over, so this would be a paper move. Or they may allow veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/beeksja02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-27_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jalen Beeks<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/29\/pirates-trade-jalen-beeks-rockies\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">acquired at the trade deadline<\/a> and on an expiring contract, to start his winter vacation early. It would be similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/24\/pirates-dfa-tellez-taylor\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">what they did<\/a> recently with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/tellero01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-27_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rowdy Tellez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/taylomi02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-27_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael A. Taylor<\/a>, and thus not out of the question.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Dave Nelson-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates have added right-handed pitcher Mike Burrows to their taxi squad for Friday\u2019s game at Yankee Stadium. There has been no statement about what they intend for Burrows this weekend. However, the guess here is that he\u2019s not being brought to New York to keep the buckets of sunflower seeds filled in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5010,"featured_media":86663,"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":[501,2146,2133,6136,28759,203],"class_list":["post-86647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pirates","category-mlb","category-news","tag-aaron-judge","tag-jalen-beeks","tag-juan-soto","tag-michael-a-taylor","tag-mike-burrows","tag-rowdy-tellez"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86647","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=86647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}