MLB Rumors: Derek Holland has signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates, per reports, with the free agent lefthanded pitcher agreeing to a minor league deal with the Bucs.
Holland, 33, was a sometimes popular, sometimes polarizing presence on the great Texas Rangers teams of the early teens, but his career got de-railed after he missed most of the 2014 season due to microfracture surgery on his knee. After disappointing, injury-plagued campaigns in 2015 and 2016, the Rangers declined their team option on him, and Holland joined the Chicago White Sox for 2017, where he put up a 6.