{"id":98801,"date":"2025-04-06T18:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T22:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=98801"},"modified":"2025-04-06T18:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T22:19:10","slug":"pirates-colin-holderman-injured-list-knee-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/04\/06\/pirates-colin-holderman-injured-list-knee-sprain\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Place Reliever Holderman on IL, Recall Former Red Sox Pitcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates placed right-handed relief pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/holdeco01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-04-06_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colin Holderman<\/a> on the 15-day injured list with a right knee sprain. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/shugach01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-04-06_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chase Shugart<\/a>, another right-handed pitcher, was called up from Triple-A Indianapolis to take his place.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have recalled RHP Chase Shugart from Triple-A Indianapolis and placed RHP Colin Holderman on the 15-day injured list.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pittsburgh Pirates (@Pirates) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pirates\/status\/1908915118374518985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Pirates Place Holderman on IL, Recall Shugart<\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s no word on when the injury occurred or how it may have affected his pitching. Holderman pitched the fifth inning of Saturday\u2019s 10-4 loss to the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Holderman had a rough five-game stretch before <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/08\/08\/pirates-roster-moves-holderman-jones-palacios-olivares\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">going on the IL<\/a> with a right wrist injury. He <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/01\/pirates-reinstate-holderman-borucki\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">returned in September<\/a>, when he gave up just two runs in 9 1\/3 innings while racking up six \u201cholds.\u201d After surrendering one lone run and striking out 11 in 7 2\/3 innings in the spring exhibition season, it appeared he\u2019d righted himself entering this season. However, the early season has been unkind to Holderman as his struggles resumed. So far this season, he\u2019s given up five runs in 4 2\/3 innings while being charged with two blown saves. Restless Pirates fans booed Holderman during player introductions on Opening Day.<\/p>\n<p>Under general manager Ben Cherington, the Pirates have seemingly become an employment agency for former Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays. Shugart, however, was drafted by the Bosox in 2018 after Cherington had moved on from Boston to Toronto. The 28-year-old got a brief taste of the major leagues last year with Boston. There, he gave up four runs in 8 2\/3 innings while recording a save. He\u2019s 27-19 in 164 games (50 starts) in seven minor league seasons with a 4.66 ERA and 1.397 WHIP. Those numbers don\u2019t scream \u201chot prospect.\u201d Indeed, the impatient Pirates fan base would have preferred seeing somebody from the Pirates&#8217; prospect list get the promotion instead. The choice of Shugart suggests Holderman\u2019s stay on the IL might not be long.<\/p>\n<h3>The Last Word<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mlodzca01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-04-06_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carmen Mlodzinski<\/a> is listed as the Pirates\u2019 starter for Monday\u2019s game against the St. Louis Cardinals. It may be wise to give his turn to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/harrito03.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Harrington<\/a> and return Mlodzinski to the bullpen, where he\u2019s been effective, to give the Pirates another solid right-handed arm there. Meanwhile, infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/triolja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-04-06_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jared Triolo<\/a> was scratched from Sunday\u2019s lineup with back discomfort. He\u2019s day-to-day. Then again, as Vin Scully once said, aren\u2019t we all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates placed right-handed relief pitcher Colin Holderman on the 15-day injured list with a right knee sprain. Chase Shugart, another right-handed pitcher, was called up from Triple-A Indianapolis to take his place. We have recalled RHP Chase Shugart from Triple-A Indianapolis and placed RHP Colin Holderman on the 15-day injured list. \u2014 Pittsburgh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5010,"featured_media":98811,"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],"tags":[3215,3632,5685,6463,28921],"class_list":["post-98801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pirates","category-mlb","tag-ben-cherington","tag-carmen-mlodzinski","tag-colin-holderman","tag-jared-triolo","tag-thomas-harrington"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98801","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=98801"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98812,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98801\/revisions\/98812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}