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212A222E2B2A317472053C242D2A2A6B262A450 wrote: Would love to see Bucs add Jed Lowrie to improve infield mix...Sean Rodriguez certainly would have helped the club

this season. But front office wounldn't pay him. Yes, he had

an unfortunate accident during off season, but is back playing for the Atlanta Braves. Sure could use his versatility and bat

in the line up...But as always, our Bucs don't want to pay for

anyone... :-X


Or was it they didn't want to pay $11.5 million for a bench player?  How much were bench players getting this past off season?



I don't want Jed Lowrie starting next year.  I'd rather have Freese, Harrison or Mercer. 


Well they did pay Daniel Hudson 11M.

Hudson is a bullpen pitcher, not a back up infielder.

Sean Rodriguez was coming off of a (far and away) career year at age 31.



We don't seem to be keeping that in mind.



I liked him on the team but not under the assumption that we were going to get 2016 SROD going forward. That seems foolish. It also seems foolish to give him 11MM for .235 and 8 HR.

Liriano to the Astros?



https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2017/07/ ... stros.html

6E5C50504476555C51545B5C3D0 wrote: Sean Rodriguez was coming off of a (far and away) career year at age 31. 



We don't seem to be keeping that in mind.



I liked him on the team but not under the assumption that we were going to get 2016 SROD going forward.  That seems foolish.  It also seems foolish to give him 11MM for .235 and 8 HR.


And why in 2015, the Pirates paid him $1.9 million. He still only got $2.5 million in 2016 as a free agent.

IIRC, didn't Rodriguez say he took the Braves' offer because they would give him a chance to start? So this time he signed for starter's money, not a backup's money.

212A222E2B2A317472053C242D2A2A6B262A450 wrote: Hudson is a bullpen pitcher, not a back up infielder.




Daniel Hudson ... Orlando Hudson ... same thing? I kid.

092429383F2E39797A4B0 wrote: IIRC, didn't Rodriguez say he took the Braves' offer because they would give him a chance to start? So this time he signed for starter's money, not a backup's money.


Yes, a big reason. But the Pirates wouldn't pay him still comes up. Even though most know the real reason.

3133292F395C0 wrote: Liriano to the Astros?



https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2017/07/ ... stros.html
I wonder which prospects the Blue Jays will give up to get the Astros to take him?

163B36272031266665540 wrote: IIRC, didn't Rodriguez say he took the Braves' offer because they would give him a chance to start? So this time he signed for starter's money, not a backup's money.


Yeah, that sounds familiar now that you mention it. I hope it doesn't sound like I'm trashing SROD. I liked him. Just wasn't that reasonable to keep him considering the offers/opportunities he got elsewhere.



Where the Pirates really went wrong with all of that is that the guy they were hoping would replace him has been a big fat zero.