The Pittsburgh Pirates front office and management sure have been busy the past few days has they have made quite a few roster changes.  Releasing players, signing players, and buying out contracts, the Pirates have been doing it all in the last 24-48 hours.

Juan Perez and Jaret Wright have been released by the Pirates.

Josh Wilson was designated for assignment while Jorge Valendia was sent to minor league camp.

Pirates purchased the contract of infielder Doug Mientkiewicz from Triple-A Indianapolis.

Byung-Hyun Kim’s contract was bought out for $300,000.

The Pirates and Braves have worked out a trade that will send Todd Redmond to the Braves in exchange for Tyler Yates.

Byung-Hyun Kim has finally received the major league contract that he was hoping to sign as the Pittsburgh Pirates have inked him to a one year deal.  It is unclear how much Kim will be paid by the Pirates at this time.

Kim was only being offered minor league contracts until the Pirates called.  It didn’t have to take him longer then five seconds to tell the Pirates that he would accept their offer.  Anything to stay out of the minor leagues lol!

Kim will be pitching out of the Pirates bullpen, where they can get all the help they can get.  But Kim really isn’t the answer here if you ask me.

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