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socalblake
I like how the newest update automatically thinks I love hockey now.
Darth Alru
They can say whatever they want, but we know – they are focusing on financial flexibility.
JT19
This article is good, but the title really bugs me. “Pirates Focusing On Run Prevention” is almost the equivalent of “Pirates Trying To Win Games This Season”.
mbgutt
It’s always about money! To lose out on a guy by 500,0000 when you had a rotation that had Jeff Locke in it after winning 90 plus games last year is mismanagement! You don’t go from 98 wins to 75 wins unless management wants to
oldoak33
The Pirates wanted Liriano to be terrible, Niese to be awful, Cole to be hurt and average, and McCutchen to have the worst season of his career. That’s what they were expecting and hoping for, correct?
Locke was in the rotation as a stepping stone to Glasnow or Taillon. He wasn’t there to make fifteen or twenty starts. Luckily Kuhl proved himself worthy of an opportunity as well.
mbgutt
Nicasio and Locke in rotation is inexcusable they are in their window now but management will not spend stop defending them!
Gwynning's Anal Lover
Do you think the Pirates could have traded Liriano, Ramirez, Tarply, Reese and Tito Polo to the D-Backs for Robbie Ray and Daniel Hudson?
leefieux
Anything was possible when Stewart was GM.
reflect
If you can’t afford veterans, then don’t rely on them in the first place? Pirates should be trading their expensive stars for prospects, and building a young, cheap core.
Robertowannabe
They do have a young cheap core. Marte, Polanco, Meadows (coming soon), Rivero, Taillon, Glasnow, Kuhl, Cole, Bell……. smh…..
Ed Charles
So tired of this “Small Market ” crap. If you can’t afford to pay the top players, get out of the business ! Unless a collective bargained agreement is agreed upon that holds your hand in being able to sign big names, move the team, and or ownership.
Darth Alru
They can spend money. Not on the top clubs level of course, but with very good revenue for a small market team $ 110-115MM-like payroll is very realistic for the Pirates. The problem is they don’t want to spend them. After almost 10 years of Nutting/Coonelly/Huntington regime it is most obvious.
jd396
What, are you guys MLBPA reps?
leefieux
Why should Nutting get ‘out of the business’? He is making money.
shafe4141
Nobody is saying this team needs to spend Dodgers and Red Sox level money. What we are saying though is when you compare % of revenue generated that is actually put back into payroll, the Pirates are at a pathetic low at 38%. Now this number is comparing 2014 revenue to Opening Day 2015 payroll, but it can’t be much different.
Cancel the after ballgame concerts. We don’t need fireworks every other week. Put a competitive mothereffing team on the field. THAT is the secret here Nutting. God I wish Mark Cuban would have bought this team. There’d be a World Series championship in Pittsburgh had that happened.
mbgutt
I think the fans are on to the con that nutting and management are running. Attendance was down this year. I know I will not go unless they actually try to win. This says it all they would not trade prospects when they could have won over the past two years. They traded two prospects to dump liriano. They will run out a crap starting rotation again next year and come up just short on a couple of pitchers this off season so sick of the games they play to make money! Just wasting their window!
StopWhiningPlease
Attendance was down because the team wasn’t good. If the team performs it will go back up, and it won’t matter who the owner is.
You’ll still find reasons to be upset at Nutting no matter what happens.
houseoflords44
It is easy to say trade McCutchen to get pitching, but you have to look at all angles. First, Meadows isn’t ready to take over for McCutchen in center field. Meadows didn’t hit in AAA this season and needs more time there. If they traded McCutchen, they’d likely have to bring in a stop gap who likely wouldn’t be anywhere near as productive. Also, what teams that would be interested in McCutchen have the pitching that the Pirates would want in return? The Blue Jays might be interested, but aren’t going to trade one of their starters for him because they don’t have the rotation depth in the organization. The Giants could be interested, but I don’t see them trading one of the starters for him. It might not be as easy to trade McCutchen for pitching help as one might think