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The Pirates have dealt reliever Tim Wood to the Texas Rangers, either for a player to be named later or cash.
Wood pitched well for Class AAA Indianapolis and has pretty good stuff, but he got destroyed at the major-league level, with eight walks and five runs allowed in eight innings, to go along with only two strikeouts. Pirates manager Clint Hurdle even used him in some high-leverage situations, including an 11th-inning appearance against the Cleveland Indians in which he put two batters on and then allowed a game-winning, three-run homer to Cord Phelps.
The Pirates probably will just end up with a little bit of cash for Wood, which is really all he's worth. He had been on the 40-man roster.
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Charlie was born and raised in Wheeling, about fifty miles southwest of Pittsburgh. For the last five years, he has been the author of the Pirates blog Bucs Dugout. He has a doctoral degree in music composition from the University of California, San Diego, and he... See my profile
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