{"id":487216,"date":"2025-12-21T00:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T00:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/487216\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T00:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T00:21:12","slug":"pirates-dfa-tsung-che-cheng-marco-luciano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/487216\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates DFA Tsung-Che Cheng, Marco Luciano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1120\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Cheng-1120x630.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium tpd-force-16x9-aspect-ratio wp-post-image\" alt=\"Tsung-Che Cheng, Pittsburgh Pirates\" decoding=\"sync\" loading=\"eager\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Pittsburgh Pirates&#8217; Tsung-Che Cheng flies out to left field, in his first major league at-bat, during the third inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo\/Gene J. Puskar)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates have designated infielder Tsung-Che Cheng and outfielder Marco Luciano for assignment. The moves were made to create roster space for second baseman Brandon Lowe, outfielder Jake Mangum and left-hander Mason Montgomery, <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/pittsburgh-pirates-trade-analysis-brandon-lowe-jake-mangum-mason-montgomery-mike-burrows\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who were acquired from the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Cheng made his MLB debut with the Pirates in 2025 and went hitless in seven at-bats across three games.<\/p>\n<p>Once considered one of the Pirates\u2019 better position-player prospects, Cheng had two straight subpar seasons in the minor leagues. The 24-year-old totaled 107 games with Triple-A Indianapolis this past year and hit .209 with a .578 OPS, 12 doubles, three triples, one home run, 36 RBI and 18 stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates claimed Luciano off waivers from the San Francisco Giants earlier in the offseason. Luciano is former top prospect who has yet to carve out a role in the majors. In 41 games between 2023-24, he combined to slash .217\/.286\/.304 with eight doubles one triple and three RBI. The 24-year-old did not play in a game for the Giants in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates\u2019 40-man roster is at capacity. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMentioned in this article: <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/marco-luciano\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marco Luciano<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-pirates\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/tsung-che-cheng\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tsung-Che Cheng<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"categories\">More about: <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/pirates-transactions\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pirates Transactions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates&#8217; Tsung-Che Cheng flies out to left field, in his first major league at-bat, during the third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,18417,64,65019],"class_list":{"0":"post-487216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-marco-luciano","10":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","11":"tag-tsung-che-cheng"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115754702462477333","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487216","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=487216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}