Last offseason, the Pirates signed a once reliable ex-Cardinal lefty reliever coming off a bad year to a minor league contract. It didn’t work out, and Siegrist never pitched for the Pirates. Tuesday night, Huntington called his mulligan and gave that strategy another shot, signing 30 year old Tyler Lyons to a minor league deal. John Dreker of Pirates Prospects broke the news.
Lyons was a reliable arm from 2015-2017, posting a 3.33 ERA and 2.33 WPA over 162 innings pitched for St. Louis. 2017 was his best year in the majors, fanning 30.