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<t>292B313721440 wrote: When you don't have the best pitching, a good defense makes it somewhat better. <br/> <br/> <br/> I agree with this. Going forward I just can't envision a Pirates team that will consistently out slug their opponents. For a team with payroll constraints such as the Pirates, ha...

<t>664B46575041561615240 wrote: Ken Rosenthal from The Athletic is reporting this morning that the Mets are "...not too motivated on Marte", and progress in talks with the Pirates is minimal. Doesn't bode well for a deal involving our best trade chip any time real soon.<br/> There should not be any ...

Ken Rosenthal from The Athletic is reporting this morning that the Mets are "...not too motivated on Marte", and progress in talks with the Pirates is minimal. Doesn't bode well for a deal involving our best trade chip any time real soon.

<t>705945505D52580D0508043C0 wrote: Possum, I seem to recall a left handed catcher way back for the Pirates. My old memory could be 100% wrong. Do you recall one?<br/> <br/> <br/> Ed Ott and Jesse Gonder were both left-hand hitting catchers for the Bucs. There may be others, but those two came to mi...

<t>5A4A4B7C6A6A66090 wrote: Off the top of my head, I'd say Bedard was a worse signing, but again not much money.  <br/> <br/> <br/> I actually thought at the time, that Bedard signing was going to be a good one.<br/> <br/> <br/> So did I. When he got off to a good start with his first couple of sta...

497B77776351727B76737C7B1A0 wrote: Other than that though it was an inspired choice


Well yeah, it was a good thought. With all of the bad deals we've endured for decades, things are bound to get a bit jumbled with regard to their genesis.

<t>576569697D4F6C65686D6265040 wrote: I didn't think Clint Barmes deal was that bad.  <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> I don't think it was a lot of money but Aki Iwamura signing was pretty bad<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> edit--oh wow, that was not this decade . . .<br/> <br/> <br/> And it was a trade not a FA si...

<t>596B67677341626B66636C6B0A0 wrote: Yeah, I mean he was hired like three weeks ago.  <br/> <br/> <br/> Precisely! I can't blame Cherington for being deliberate in selecting and hiring the coaching staff. I'm sure he's still deep into the process of evaluating every aspect of the organization's ass...

<r>The Forbes info comes from April of 2019. Spotrac is looking at current payroll including estimates of individual player's salaries who are due for arbitration as a projection for 2020 payroll. So they aren't going to be the same. Here's the Spotrac detailed payroll info on Oakland: <URL url="htt...

<r>756D6F68687F6E69747563060 wrote: There were so many extenuating circumstances last year for Diaz that I don't think you can evaluate him very well based on that year's performance. You need to at least look at him in the spring and see how he's doing. I have thought, though, that he could use som...