Pittsburgh Pirates Breakout Candidate: Geoff Hartlieb

Despite his rough 2019 rookie season, you shouldn’t overlook Pittsburgh Pirates relief pitcher Geoff Hartlieb

Last year, many of the Pittsburgh Pirates talented, but undeveloped, pitchers were given large roles at the MLB level who were unprepared to take on Major League batters. This was because of the myriad of injuries that occurred.

Only one of the Pirate starters surpassed 150 innings, and many of the relief arms the team was going to rely on throughout 2019 under-performed or were injured. One of the arms that was thrown into the fire was right hander Geoff Hartlieb. Despite his ugly results in 2019, the right-handed pitcher could be a breakout candidate in the Pittsburgh Pirates future.

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