The Pittsburgh Pirates are ending the Marcell Ozuna experiment.As first reported by MLB insider Mike Rodriguez, the Pirates are set to release Ozuna. Ronny Simón will come up from Triple-A Indianapolis and take his place on the 26-man roster.Ozuna signed a one-year, $12 million deal with Pittsburgh towards the beginning of spring training with the expectation that he'd serve as the team's primary designated hitter.The 35-year-old got off to a putrid start, however, posting a slash line of .181/.236/.277 over 83 at-bats in April and never really turned his season around from there.While Ozuna logged a respectable .713 OPS with three home runs in May and a .738 OPS with two homers in June, he slashed .216/.326/.324 during July.The power never really showed up in Pittsburgh, as he leaves the club with just eight homers to his name, and he also struck out 28.6 percent of the time.For a Pirates team that's in the Wild Card race in the National League and were buyers at the trade deadline as a result, they couldn't keep handing regular at-bats to Ozuna.While Pittsburgh could use all the offensive help it can get with Konnor Griffin, Ryan O'Hearn and Oneil Cruz all on the injured list, Ozuna simply wasn't a solution.Make sure to visit Pirates OnSI for the latest news, updates, interviews and insight on the Pittsburgh Pirates!Add us as a preferred source on GoogleFollow