Thomas Harrington Gets Promoted to Greensboro

The Greensboro Grasshoppers announced a few moves prior to Thursday’s game, one of which includes a high draft pick of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Thomas Harrington has been promoted from the Bradenton Marauders to the Greensboro Grasshoppers. Last year’s 36th overall draft pick has pitched well for the most part in Bradenton, except for a couple of poor outings among his eight starts. He went 4-1, 2.77 in 39 innings, with 40 strikeouts and a 1.10 WHIP.

Harrington was a high draft pick out of college, so Low-A wasn’t a great level for him, especially since the level has looked more like a short-season league recently as far as the quality of play. With smaller rosters, teams have chosen raw…