The Pirates DFA’d Rowdy Tellez because if he had 4 more plate appearances, they would owe him $200K. This is the type of organization the Pirates are. This happened to Boomer with the Cardinals. If he started one more game he would get a bonus. Then they wanted him to go into a game later in the season, but not start it.

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