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De Jong

De Jong went unclaimed on waivers last week after being designated for assignment and will remain with the Pirates as organizational pitching depth. The 29-year-old righty has made six relief appearances this season at the big league level.

De Jong has been removed from Pittsburgh’s 40-man roster for the second time this season after making six relief appearances in the majors. The 29-year-old righty figures to pass through waivers unclaimed and remain with the Pirates as extra organizational relief depth.

De Jong went unclaimed on waivers in early May but returns to the active roster on Sunday. The 29-year-old posted a 2.84 ERA across five appearances since then and will come out of the Pirates bullpen in lower leverage situations.

De Jong went unclaimed on waivers after being designated for assignment earlier this week and will presumably remain with the Pirates as extra organizational relief depth. The 29-year-old righty allowed 11 runs on 13 hits with a 5/5 K/BB ratio across 9 1/3 innings (five appearances) this season.

He’ll get the boot with Josh Palacios coming up from Triple-A. De Jong has struggled with a 10.61 ERA over five appearances this season.

De Jong has been out since mid-April due to a lumbar strain, but he’s been cleared to return after tossing four scoreless innings over three rehab appearances in Triple-A. He’ll provide some depth in long relief.

De Jong landed on the injured list last week with a back strain and figures to be ready to be activated before the end of April.

The right-hander has been battling a lumbar spine muscle strain, and the Pirates felt it was best to just shut him down for a couple of weeks and let him heal up. Robert Stephenson was activated from the injured list to take his spot in the Pirates’ bullpen.

De Jong entered in the top of the ninth with the Pirates leading 3-0 and promptly gave up a single and back-to-back homers as Cincinnati tied the game. Pittsburgh did manage to pull out a 4-3 win in the bottom of the 10th, but De Jong’s ugly performance left Bryse Wilson with a tough-luck no-decision following his career-best eight scoreless frames.

Not great. De Jong was brought on to guard a two-run lead in the ninth inning and wound up surrendering an RBI double to Corey Dickerson and a go-ahead two-run homer to Albert Pujols before being lifted from the frame. He also served up a solo shot to Tyler O’Neill before ending the calamitous frame.