Pirates send Buddy Borden to Tampa Bay to complete Sean Rodriguez trade

Posted by on Dec 12, 2014 17:32

I will admit to knowing almost nothing about Buddy Borden, other than that he was a 2013 draft pick of the Pirates. Borden was, in fact, the Pirates seventh round pick out of UNLV in 2013, and so the first thing that I noticed about him is that even though he was a college player picked in the 2013 draft, he hasn’t pitched above West Virginia. That means that in all likelihood he was going to open 2015 as a 23-year old in advanced-A.

Anyway, you can check out Pirate Prospects for more on Borden. Tim obviously isn’t a fan of the deal and Borden does have some upside, but I think that the way the Pirates have slow-rolled Borden to this point is noticeable and I’d default towards giving the team the benefit of the doubt here.

About Pat Lackey

In 2005, I started a WHYGAVS instead of working on organic chemistry homework. Many years later, I've written about baseball and the Pirates for a number of sites all across the internet, but WHYGAVS is still my home. I still haven't finished that O-Chem homework, though.

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