2024 Off-Season Thread

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If the Pirates even want to sign a free agent outfielder it could be Tommy Pham, David Peralta or Mark Canha. All three players are older than 35 years old. I really think they are going to try to fill the position from within the organization. Gorski has been invited to ST as a non roster player, so possibly he may impress the Staff.

one of the things about this off season (unless the Pirates stun most of us and actually have a very good year) is that it could be evidence that the front office just doesn't know what it is doing instead of just being entirely a money issue.

Maybe they think players already on the roster are going to be good, maybe they think free agents and players on other teams aren't worth acquiring for close to the asking price.

To me Skenes is a natural, the Pirates have only had to stay out of his way. Jared Jones may be the same with less talent than Skenes. If Spencer H. flops (let's say he is another Lee Mazilli or Brant Brown type of player at best) it should be plenty of proof that Ben and company can't do the job. They just make a lot of head scratching decisions and unfortunately most of them don't work out.

You make a good point, but I have to think somebody on the Baseball OPS knows something about talent. I think besides being cheap, there are many players who don’t want to play for the Pirates due to the many years of losing as well as situations like they did last year to Tellez. It is so sad that a one time proud franchise has become the laughing stock of MLB. Can you imagine a franchise like the Brewers, Reds, or the Tigers having billboards requesting their owners to sell the team? Nutting is a joke of an owner.

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Well, the Reds were pretty close!

After watching MLB Network, they did a pre-season preview of the offseason for the two PA teams. For the Pirates, they seemed to wonder why they didn't go after anyone, and they also appear to believe the Pirates feel that out of (and these were the guys they pointed out) Hayes, Suwinski, Endy, Davis, Cruz, and Bednar there is an expectation that most if not all will right the ship, and in Cruz's case, that he will go to another level. As JP Morosi asked, "where is the 3 run HR coming from?" and it all points to Suwinski and Cruz.

Let's hope that hope is the answer!