Friday links

Pirates claim Justin Thomas off of waivers. Here are his minor league stats. Six walks per nine innings! That’ll be exciting.

A little more on the Class-A affiliate swap from the PG. The official annoucnement is expected on November 11th, and as we suspected the move is being made to get an affiliate close to Pirate City in Bradenton.

If you use iTunes, Game 7 of the 1971 World Series is available for a $1.99 download.

Bud Selig said that 21 won’t be retired across baseball in honor of Roberto Clemente. As nice of a gesture as I think it would be to retire Clemente’s number, I think that it’s right that Robinson has such a unique tribute paid to him.

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