Though perhaps not having as many minor and foreign league games under his belt as Drew Maggi from last year, the Pirates about to promote a veteran player who has played 277 games before making the major leagues.
Brady Feigl, 33 years old, had his contract selected this afternoon after the team placed Hunter Stratton on the 60-Day Injured List. He left last night’s blowout loss with a injury, which eventually turned out to be a rupture of his left patella tendon.
Feigl has pitched 390.1 innings over his career in minor league affiliates for the Atlanta Braves, Texas Rangers, and this season, and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Feigl has had a fascinating career, which will now be capped off by the next pitch he throws being a major league one.
An undrafted free agent, Feigl signed with the Atlanta Braves in October of 2013, a year after graduating from Mount St. Mary’s University.
He spent three years in the Braves organization, though a Tommy John surgery wiped out a sizable chunk of his time there. Most of his innings came at the High-A level or lower; he made one Triple-A appearance, pitching 0.2 innings before suffering that crucial arm injury.
After the 2016 campaign, Atlanta traded him to the Texas Rangers. He spent another three years in the Rangers organization, where the last two years saw him spent most of his season with Texas’ Triple-A affiliates.
It was with the Rangers organization that he also met his doppelgänger, a fellow 6′ 4, ginger, baseball pitcher who was also named…Brady Feigl. You can find more about that story here.
After a 2019 season that saw him put up a 3.43 ERA and 1.048 WHIP in 21.0 Triple-A innings, he was selected by the San Diego Padres in the Rule 5 Draft.
However, after Covid canceled the minor league seasons in 2020, and an arm injury took out Feigl’s 2021 season, he elected free agency after that season, having never thrown a single pitch while a member of the Padres organization.
Feigl has since spent the last three years in independent and foreign leagues. He signed with the Long Island Ducks in the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He only tossed 7.2 innings, giving up 4 runs but only 1 of them earned.
The next year, he signed with the Spire City Ghost Hounds, still of the Atlantic League, where he really struggled. He threw 14.1 innings to a 6.28 ERA and 1.535 WHIP, which resulted in him being released from the Spire mid-season.
Feigl was picked up by the Lexington Counter Clocks, where he performed much better. He pitched 34.1 innings with a 2.36 ERA and 1.019 WHIP. It was his best year throwing that many innings since his 2018 campaign with Triple-A Round Rock.
In the winter, he signed with Tigres del Licey of the Dominican Winter League. Here’s a look at how he did down there:
He had thrown 13.1 innings with an 0.68 ERA before the Pirates came calling, offering to sign him to a minor league deal, which he accepted.
This season has marked his first time pitching in affiliated baseball in five years, and Feigl has been a solid reliever for Pittsburgh’s Triple-A affiliate, the Indianapolis Indians.
He has hurled 51.2 innings for Indy, posting a 7-2 record with a 3.83 ERA and 1.239 WHIP. His last outing for the Indians came on the 22nd, where he went 1.0 innings and struck out a pair in the tenth inning to secure the win.
Now, after over a decade in the sport, Feigl will finally make his major league debut. He’s already in town, ready to go.
(Featured photo by Adam Pintar/Indianapolis Indians)
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