Chris Leroux hasn't been released. I'm looking at him right now. On field in Indy. He took spot in Class AAA when Garrett Olsen went on DL.

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 Imagine Chris' thoughts if he had seen this:

Pirates Release Chris Leroux http://bit.ly/kPhl7R #mlb 

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To our friends at MLBTR's credit, it was not their fault and was actually an issue with the press release, though I didn't see it before it was pulled.

However, I'm trying to imagine how something like that gets mixed up in the media room. I'm picturing an old school printing press and a bunch of old men in green see-through hats and ink-stained fingers yelling over the click-click-clack of each other's typewriters, the smoke pouring in from the editor's office (big deal, we like cigars!), the rhythmic but oddly misplaced thump-thump-thump of non-existent newspaper presses in the background...

"Leroux moving up to replace Olsen in AAA!"

"Leroux is getting released?"

"Yeah!"

If any of you insiders have a more complete look at how something like that happens, drop me a line -- on or off the record. Sounds fascinating.