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Pirates Trade Rumors

Time for a Pirates roundup.  They deserve some love here at MLBTradeRumors.

• Dejan Kovacevic reports that Salomon Torres's grievance against the Pirates may prevent the team from trading him.  On the off chance he wins the grievance, he would become a free agent and the acquiring team would be screwed.  While that scenario is unlikely, it does look like this thing needs to be resolved before any deal is made.  I imagine that if some team wanted him badly all the involved parties could figure something out.
• The Bucs owe Shawn Chacon a phone call on whether they're open to negotiating a contract extension with him.  Their lack of action speaks volumes; even Dave Littlefield isn't going to sign Chacon for multiple years at $4MM+ per.  Chacon has managed to subdue righties this year and increase his strikeout rate significantly.  He's still got lousy control though.  He's a trade candidate but shouldn't bring much.
• On the other hand, Damaso Marte is known to be available.  He'd be helpful as a lefty-killer.  For Marte, Chacon, or Torres, the Pirates want a Major Leaguer of some sort (according to MLB.com's Mark Bowman).  Bowman says the Braves would get in on Marte if Littlefield would drop the price. 

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