According to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports the Pirates have traded left handed reliever Eric O’Flaherty to the Atlanta Braves. The return for O’Flaherty is not yet known, but I would expect it to be very minuscule.
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-lang=”en”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Source: <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/Braves?src=hash”>#Braves</a> acquire LHP Eric O'Flaherty from <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/Pirates?src=hash”>#Pirates</a>.</p>— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=”https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/714100498740219907″>March 27, 2016</a></blockquote>
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I had expected O’Flaherty to make the Pirate bullpen as their second left handed pitcher, obviously that will not be the case now. I would expect either Kyle Lobstein or Cory Luebke to be the second left handed pitcher in the bullpen now.