With a payroll that low they should just outbid everyone on Donaldson and then hope he gets off to a real good start, then trade him to a contender for some prospects mid season.
You would think but the owner will never pay. Remember this is the team whose largest contract ever is still Jason Freaking Kendall.
At least they won’t rip your heart out every year. Our largest contract and longest tenured player disappears come October
Seems like a good strategy to speed along the rebuilding process. The Phillies tried it a couple times with veteran starting pitchers and it never worked but I can see how it could work. And it would have worked with Charlie Morton but they were a year early.
Who is that, Freddie?
Would make sense but the Pirates are in a perpetual rebuild. Even the few years in the playoffs they refused to add real talent at the deadline to improve. This is the team that hasn’t won a playoff series since 1979.
Well at least that one turned out good. Oddly enough even though I can't name more than 2 pirates from last year I can rattle off the 1979 starters with no problem.
Sadly most Pirate fans would have the same responses.
That’s a hell of a haul though. The guys listed are all either in the bigs and producing or are MLB ready.
If Clevinger is going, then I hope that means that catcher coming from LA becomes Ruiz. If I'm Cleveland, I can't accept this trade fast enough.I"m hearing Clevinger is being talked about in the deal as well possibly
