The Pittsburgh Pirates have purchased the contract of 22-year-old shortstop Nick King from the Schaumburg Boomers of the Frontier League. He played just four games for the team, going 1-for-14 at the plate and handling all of his chances in the field cleanly.
King was a senior at Georgia this year, where he hit .236/.288/.282 in 55 games, going 13-for-16 in stolen bases and he had a .952 fielding percentage at shortstop. All of those stats were slightly down from his junior year, when he had a .639 OPS, with 16 steals and just eight errors in 54 starts at shortstop.