The Pittsburgh Pirates signed 25-year-old third baseman Josh Broughton to a minor league deal on Wednesday. He spent the 2021-22 seasons with Ogden of the independent Pioneer League, after originally signing with the Kansas City Royals as a 25th round draft pick in 2019.
Broughton played third base, some outfield and pitched in college ball. The Royals used him as a pitcher and he saw poor results in his brief time in 2019, then got released during the canceled 2020 season. He signed to play indy ball in 2021 and briefly pitched with bad results, before switching full-time to hitting.