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Pittsburgh Pirates
Trade talks between the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants have reached the serious enough stages where a deal to send Andrew McCutchen to San Francisco is now considered a formality.
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Expectations are a deal will be officially completed within the next 24 hours.
The Pirates on Saturday swung a Gerrit Cole trade in a deal centered around getting quantity over quality where the Pirates received multiple years of control in all four players acquired.
A return for McCutchen is expected to be less than what the Pirates received for Cole but similar in that the Pirates won’t be receiving a high-end prospect/prospects.
mccutchen would be nice move for #SFGiants. only 1 year from free agency, so not expected to be enormous haul (i.e. no heliot ramos). talks serious with pirates, as reported.
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) January 15, 2018
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At least the high flying Penguins are back and coming at the opposition in waves
Good for you Cutch, you deserve to leave this shit hole! We will never be a contender as long as the fans continue to support the attendance, Nutting will continue to sit back, be profitable and laugh at us fans for believing the bullshit that is continuously fed to the media! Retool, rebuild……whatever!!! Huntington’s comments yesterday on MLB.com were just plain embarrassing! 3 top 100 prospects, well maybe at one time, but, they all failed! Oh well, once again we will dwell in the cellar and let Mr Nutting reap the benefits! There should be a new chant at the… Read more »
I think this year you see a drastic drop in attendance, which will force his hand. Cutch wss the most beloved players on the team and in the city, not to mention a hell of a player. Then you trade away your ace, or at least their version of it. It will dip like it did a decade ago and they will get high picks. The cycle will start over. Only difference I could see is more of a pushback from the fans.
This ownership group sucks, the front office sucks, the Gm’s over the years have been brutal. They simply don’t care they collect their royalty checks from MLB at the end of the year.THE MAKE MONEY BUY LOSING… ITS SO SAD. ITS NOT about small or mid market teams either that’s an excuse… THe royals have won, the Oakland A’s have won,the twins are competitive, hell the Marlins have won two world championships in the last 20 years….you know the 20 years the Pirates cant even break .500 bottom 7 in payroll like a billion years in a row and this… Read more »
Looks like Harrison will be gone soon as well. Their attendance is going to take a huge hit and it’s going to be great.
Bunn will defend these moves until the day he dies
I’m waiting for NPL’s analysis of why this is a great trade.
Youre not going to get that from me. I stopped defending them the year they decided not to improve a 98-win team. They squandered that opportunity as well as the opportunity to build around a generational talent/leader like Cutch. Its disgusting, but more importantly, Sam sucks.
And the Bucs are paying part of the salary? When will fans boycott the team and send a message?
Never. Too many people love baseball in general or just going down to that ballpark.
It’s official.
Probably the first time the Steelers appreciate the Pirates grabbing headlines.
Good for him. He’s sacrificed enough for this city. This ownership group has to know they are a laughing stock by now.
So huge Penguins fan and why I’m a member of the board. However in baseball I’m a huge Giants fan but I was just talking to my buddy who is huge Pirates fan…what is up with the whole selling off assets? The Pirates have come such a long way of late with being successful, it just doesn’t add up. I know they are small market team but something just doesn’t make sense.
How long will this city continue to be held hostage by an ownership group like this? Why can’t the MLB step in? This is pathetic.
Spezza healthy scratch. Any droolers. Tbj,mstartari
He’s no Paul Byron that’s for sure
Hell don’t sell the team just pay off the damn ballpark and do you want then.
tough on the fans.
Just sell the team already
HE WONT SELL HE IS LEAVING IT TO HIS DAUGHTERS FROM WHAT HE SAYS…UUUGGGHHHHHHHH