We now know Tampa Bay Rays’ officials were being honest when they proclaimed the PTBNL in the Chris Archer trade would be a significant prospect coming their way.
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After chatter the PTBNL was a major league player, It has now become official that RHP Shane Baz, the 12th overall pick in the 2017 draft is the player to be named later in the Archer trade.
The trade from July 31 is now official with the Rays receiving Tyler Glasnow, Austin Meadows and Shane Baz.
Will Baz being included in the trade now change the perception of the deal from the Pirates end?
To some extent for sure.
With the team fading in the wildcard race and all the biometrics talk of resting starters, this isn’t a great day for this to come out.
The Pirates were universally praised at the deadline as they should have been. They set themselves up to be competitive the next couple seasons but being competitive doesn’t equal being a playoff team.
What the rest of the season will dictate is whether that 11 game winning streak gave a false sense of security that the Pirates are closer to being a playoff caliber team than they really are.
But, at the end of the day Baz is years away from the Majors and if you believe this current group has a 3-4 year window to compete for a playoff spot, then he’s the type of prospect you put in play for the right player.
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10… 10 days without a fucken article ah ha ha! What a fucken joke dude
How does he pay to even keep the site up? Do people really pay for subscriptions here?
If you want to read penguins articles.
https://www.nbcsports.com/nhl
we are over 8 days and 19 hours at this point. i’m shocked the article is still open.
Apparently it is a side article masquerading as a real one… they dont seem to shut off
Maybe its running till the Pirates are officially out of it.
7 days… this bitch should lock down soon. That will be what the 3rd or 4th time D has allowed the discussion boards to shut off this summer?
30 days till camp starts, and our fearless insider has nothing to write about.
What do you want him to write about? If you want made up garbage, head over to Hockeybuzz.
No prospects to write about?
No backup goalie battle he can breakdown?
No position by position breakdown?
Nothing to compare Pens against division teams after offseason moves?
ProHockey talk is going team by team and breaking down each team with 3 questions marks on the team. What player is under the most pressure, potential moves that could be made, season expectation.
It’s too much for the writer of this site to produce an article every 2 days about the upcoming season? How about be a journalist, interview a player and write something about them.
Dude it’s funny you call D a journalist. I thought this site was about Trump, hot dogs and Sam’ horrible posts about hockey.
Or you Turing off your TV the minute pens are down 2-0
Good one Sammy. That was you. Everyone knows it was you. Asshat.
Fucking idiot!
PGH Hockey Now has had at least 3 articles in the last 24 hours. I mean some of it is filler but is still worthy of generating discussion. there are league things to discuss, the top 20 winger thing would be great because it would piss sam off to no end that Kessel made it albeit lower than he probably should be lol. Cup odds would be a discussion piece too.
Well at least they didn’t trade for Brassa$$ 🙂
And with an ERA of 5.65 he players like him.
I am not a big fan of baseball so can someone explain to me why they have a trade deadline when players are still getting traded after said deadline has passed.
However this trade works out,it feels good to be on this side of it for once.
On what side of it? The side that got fleeced?
nooo, he means the side that ended up getting the best player in the deal… SMH.. and I hate the pirates now, finally giving up on them… but please explain how they got fleeced? a 19 year old pitcher with good stuff (Remember the HS arms they drafted IE zack dodson, Zack von roseburg who now punts for LSU) HS arms are never a sure thing… Meadows didnt have a spot in the outfield, he will be great, but they want to win with Marte Polonco and Dickerson and they just drafted a college guy Travis Swaggerty. And Glasnow was… Read more »
One of Stan’s new accounts will be here shortly to call you a moron and bash the Pirates.
As Stan, the pirates do suck. The trade is whatever. They’ll be mediocre with or without it for the foreseeable future.
Here comes butthurt Benny to defend pirates management once again. No matter how much you like archer, the pirates paid way too much.
Did the team move to Oklahoma City yet?
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