Pittsburgh Pirates’s Bid Farewell to Pitching Phenom

Reliever Jose Mesa, waived by the Pittsburgh Pirates, holds the team record for most consecutive saves with eighteen, set in 2004. He will not turn forty next spring wearing gold and black Pittsburgh proud colors.

Mesa is one of six pitchers in the history of baseball to register forty saves four times, and only a year older since the last time he achieved this feat. Needing only thirty strikeouts to join the thousand club, it would be an unusual accomplishment for someone who’s spent an entire career in the bull pen. Let’s hope the ex-Pirate makes his mark…for an American League team.