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<t>0322373E063F24372233560 wrote: I've been trying to say that the Melancon trade was terrible for morale reasons.  You just don't weaken your team when you are not out of the playoff hunt.  People can say they weren't playing that great and they wouldn't have made the playoffs anyway but what they ...

<t>I've been trying to say that the Melancon trade was terrible for morale reasons. You just don't weaken your team when you are not out of the playoff hunt. People can say they weren't playing that great and they wouldn't have made the playoffs anyway but what they would have done is conjecture and...

<t>Since I was vocal yesterday, I'll provide a comment now that it's done. The trade makes baseball sense in a vacuum but, if there is no corresponding move to get better now, it is psychologically damaging and extremely ballsy in the sense that it has a real chance to seriously blow up in the Pirat...

<t>It won't paralyze the team if they get nothing for Melancon especially if the return would be a high A level prospect and a fungible reliever for their All-Star closer as suggested above. My guess is that there will be a revolt in the clubhouse, however, if that's the return while they are legiti...

Andrew Miller has two additional reasonably-priced years on his contract. Let's not stray too far from reality.

<t>5E6C60607446656C61646B6C0D0 wrote: Wow, I'm a pretty big supporter of the front office and understanding that he's got to make value transactions, but I can't get on board with encouraging them to just throw in the towel two games back from a playoff berth.<br/> <br/> <br/> Why is it throwing in ...

Wow, I'm a pretty big supporter of the front office and understanding that he's got to make value transactions, but I can't get on board with encouraging them to just throw in the towel two games back from a playoff berth.

<t>Right now? Replaced by whom? We get worse in the 9th inning and that move leads to a pretty marginal reliever pitching the 7th inning when our starters rarely get past the 6th. It's giving up on the team unless there is a corresponding move for a starter. This is still a business about banners, n...

<t>I don't think the Pirates, under the circumstances of competing for a playoff spot, can deal Melancon unless they are getting a piece that arguably has a more positive impact right now. It sends the wrong message to fans but, more importantly, to players. A contending team is all that will want M...

The bigger issue seems to be why Joyce and Freese would want to stay. They can probably get starting opportunities with starter money someplace else. The Pirates can't do that regardless of whether they want to pay market value for players.