The Pirates are pleased with Charlie Morton's recovery from elbow surgery, but would like to see him make one more rehab start before returning to the rotation. According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Monday, the team would prefer not to call up Morton to take Jeanmar Gomez's spot in the rotation right now.
Morton threw 86 pitches in his last start for Triple-A Indianapolis, and they will likely take advantage of an off-day in the schedule to re-shuffle the rotation to get him one more start to continue to build up his arm strength.
"It was definitely a step forward as far as focus and command," manager Clint Hurdle said. "We want to bring people back who are game-ready, who are going to give us meaningful innings. I think there's room for improvement, and we would like to push the pitch count toward 100."