{"id":640346,"date":"2026-03-24T06:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/640346\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T06:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:53:13","slug":"pirates-send-veteran-pitcher-mike-clevinger-to-the-minors-after-a-so-so-spring-training-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/640346\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates send veteran pitcher Mike Clevinger to the minors after a so-so spring training | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Mike Clevinger&#8217;s career reset with the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/pittsburgh-pirates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> is going to start in the minors.<\/p>\n<p>The club reassigned the veteran right-handed pitcher to minor league camp on Monday. The 35-year-old, who <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mike-clevinger-pirates-contract-c67c2311d7853d52d2779bf77927c3b1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">agreed to a minor league deal<\/a> with Pittsburgh in early February, went 1-0 with a 5.02 ERA and 15 strikeouts in 14 1\/3 innings of work during spring training, starting in two games and serving as a reliever in two others.<\/p>\n<p>kAmr=6G:?86C \ud83d\ude00 e_\\cc H:E9 2 b]dd t#p 24C@DD ?:?6 D62D@?D H:E9 r=6G6=2?5[ $2? s:68@ 2?5 E96 r9:428@ (9:E6 $@I] w6 92D 562=E H:E9 :?;FC:6D \ud83d\ude15 C646?E D62D@?D 2?5 DECF88=65 H:E9 E96 (9:E6 $@I =2DE DAC:?8 27E6C 36:?8 &gt;@G65 E@ E96 3F==A6?] w6 3@F?465 324&lt; 27E6C C6EFC?:?8 E@ E96 C@E2E:@? H:E9 %C:A=6\\p r92C=@EE6] r=6G:?86C H6?E f\\b H:E9 2 c]a_ t#p 2?5 hb DEC:&lt;6@FED \ud83d\ude15 aa DE2CED \ud83d\ude15 E96 &gt;:?@CD =2DE DF&gt;&gt;6C]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAm%96 !:C2E6D 92G6 2 J@F?8 C@E2E:@? =65 3J C6:8?:?8 }{ rJ *@F?8 pH2C5 H:??6C k2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@&gt;^2CE:4=6^4J\\J@F?8\\2H2C5\\E2C:&lt;\\D2;@CD 2E E96 6?5 @7 =2DE D62D@?]k^Am<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px; color: #666; text-transform: uppercase\">Story continues below video<\/p>\n<p>kAmr=6G:?86C H2D 6J6:?8 2 DA@E 6:E96C 2E E96 324&lt; 6?5 @7 E96 C@E2E:@? @C 2D 2 =@?8 C6=:6G6C] !:EED3FC89 :?DE625 H6?E H:E9 r2C&gt;6? |=@5K:?D&lt;: 2D E96:C 7:7E9 DE2CE6C 2?5 y@D6 &amp;CBF:5J 2?5 wF?E6C q2C4@ \ud83d\ude15 &gt;:55=6\\:??:?8 C6=:67 C@=6D]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAmr=6G:?86C\u2019D 36DE 52JD 42&gt;6 H:E9 r=6G6=2?5 7C@&gt; a_`f\\`h[ H96? 96 H2D bg\\`g H:E9 2 a]h` t#p]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>k9C ^m<\/p>\n<p>kAmp! |{qi k2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@&gt;^|{qQm9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@&gt;^|{qk^2mk^Am<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Mike Clevinger&#8217;s career reset with the Pittsburgh Pirates is going to start in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,2125,4,256,10,776,64,81890,4297,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-640346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-pirates","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-minor-league-baseball","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-mlb-baseball","12":"tag-pirates","13":"tag-pittsburgh","14":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","15":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates-mike-clevinger","16":"tag-pittsburghpirates","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116282838545685463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640346","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=640346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}