{"id":32405,"date":"2025-05-16T22:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T22:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/32405\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T22:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T22:51:06","slug":"pirates-select-nick-solak-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/32405\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Select Nick Solak &#8211; MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pirates made a move just before tonight\u2019s game in Philadelphia, selecting second baseman\/corner outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/solakni01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-16_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nick Solak<\/a> onto the big league club. Pittsburgh optioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/baeji01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-16_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ji Hwan Bae<\/a> to Triple-A Indianapolis to create an active roster spot, while the recently-claimed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/helmami01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-16_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael Helman<\/a> was designated for assignment in the 40-man roster move. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/smokeymeats45\/status\/1923214916615283050\" rel=\"nofollow\">@smokeymeats45<\/a> first reported that Solak was being called up.<\/p>\n<p>Solak is back in the big leagues for the first time since 2023. The right-handed hitter only made two appearances that year, one apiece with the Braves and Tigers. He\u2019d appeared in 35 games for Texas the year prior. His most recent semi-regular MLB action came with the 2021 Rangers, when he suited up in 127 games and batted .242\/.314\/.362 with 11 home runs.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pirates made a move just before tonight\u2019s game in Philadelphia, selecting second baseman\/corner outfielder Nick Solak onto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,7715,10942,4,12315,10,776,64,4297],"class_list":{"0":"post-32405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-pirates","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-ji-hwan-bae","10":"tag-michael-helman","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-nick-solak","13":"tag-pirates","14":"tag-pittsburgh","15":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","16":"tag-pittsburghpirates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114519964871482407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}