He is suspended. The head coach of the Pittsburgh Pirates is just suspended due to the serious offense he committed with…
Check the facts: What caused Derek Shelton and Angel Perdomo’s suspensions? Pirates coach and pitcher are benched for their antics against the Padres.
Euclides Rojas, the Pirates’ bullpen coach, will miss two games starting on Tuesday due to what the team called a contract breach. This is Pittsburgh’s second bullpen suspension of the month.
Against the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday, Rojas started to serve his suspension. The club declined to comment further.
In July, reliever Keone Kela was also suspended for two games due to an unidentified contract breach. According to Yahoo Sports, Kela’s suspension was brought on by a fight with the team’s peak performance coach and director of cultural readiness, Hector Morales. When questioned about the report last week, Kela did not dispute it.
The Pirates in bottom place having lost nine games in a row and
“I’m most proud of the growth that we’re making with our players and a lot of that credit goes to the staff,” Shelton said. “I think our depth in our organization is something that is better than when we got here. Probably the most part I’m proud of globally is that Ben came in with a plan, and we have never veered off that plan. Sometimes it’s been challenging, at times people have questioned it, but we’ve never veered off like what we do that we think’s going to be successful for long-term success in Pittsburgh.
The plan hasn’t been successful, at least at the major-league level. Yet there is no indication the clock is ticking on Shelton and Cherington in the eyes of owner Bob Nutting.
Shelton certainly walked into an awful situation and it got worse when the Pirates decided to go into full-on rebuilding mode in 2020. However, in Year 5, it is fair to expect some significant progress.
