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Josh Shortslef has been added to the 40-man to fill one of the three (I think there was three) open spots on the roster. He had decent numbers at Altoona this year but only made 12 starts and is going to be 25 before the season opens next year. Neither of those are particularly good things.

Pirates.com has an article up about all of the Pirates' "prospects" that are playing Winter Ball in Arizona or Hawaii (which curiously omits Shortslef, I might add). I only use prospects because they do, somehow I don't feel like 26 year old Nyjer Morgan (who is a less talented version of Rajai Davis, who is a less talented verision of Chris Duffy, who isn't really all that talented to begin with) who spent this last year in Altoona is much of a prospect. Regardless, you can find the AFL stats here and you can't find the Hawaii stats anywhere as far as I can tell. Also on the Grand Canyon Rafters (the team the Pirates' players were assigned to) is Joe Koshansky, mentioned by Dejan as a lefty masher target from the Colorado system, my former high school teammate Nolan Reimold, now in the Orioles system, and 2006 top draft pick Luke Hochevar.

And of course, if you haven't been following, the Pittsburgh Tigers are one game from the World Series after another dominant performance by Kenny Rogers last night. Meanwhile, Scott Spezio and So Taguchi lead the Cards to a 9-6 comeback win against the Mets, leaving us one game closer to hearing nothing but Tony LaRussa/Jim Leyland stories non-stop for two weeks.