x The Pirates’ Approach to Getting Paul Skenes to the Playoffs? Sign Adam Frazier and Tim Mayza
January 29, 2025
x The Pirates’ Approach to Getting Paul Skenes to the Playoffs? Sign Adam Frazier and Tim Mayza
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😂 This organization continues to find new ways to be an embarrassment to the city and fans of Pirates baseball.
The most important and agreeable section of the article, to me:
>Skenes is a franchise-altering player. The Pirates are going to be paying one of the best players in baseball peanuts for the next five years. Opportunities like that don’t come around often. We’re talking Stephen Strasburg, Bryce Harper, Joe Mauer, David Price, and Adley Rutschman. When you draft a player this good, you should build a team around him.
>**The Pirates are building a team – it’s just not a contending team.** They took a team that won 76 games last year, traded for Spencer Horwitz, wiped their hands together, and said “job’s done!” They’re on track to spend less money on payroll this year than they did in 2024. They have the third-lowest luxury tax payroll in baseball as it stands right now, and it’s January 29, so I doubt they’re just waiting to make five huge signings and flip the narrative.
I get a sense if things go even slightly south this year both Keller and Hayes are getting moved, and at that point why the hell would anyone want to sign here long term
They’re banking hard on their pitching carrying them, but just look at the Mariners
If you can’t hit, it doesn’t matter how many aces you have in your rotation
So ridiculous. The continuous challenge of being a Buccos fan.
Please, Sell the damn team Bob.
Adam Frazier?
Adam Frazier! Our savior! /s
Neil Charington is as bad as Ben Huntington
I’m now convinced the off-season we actually made solid signings (relative to us) with guys like Santana and Rich Hill we were facing getting a complaint from the league like how the athletics had this year, we actually were proactive in adding guys, every offseason since we’ve been dormant and let guys like Austin Hays sign for reasonable money somewhere else
This is ridiculous…wasting a year of Skenes….. we surely didn’t need another middle infielder. The only way this works is if Hank becomes Hammerin Hank and kills it this year in the outfield. Nutting spent Nutting gained.
Let’s face it , Skenes ain’t making this his long term home. He’s likely marrying a woman who is gonna need to make her home in LA or NY to continue her career. He’s not gonna take a don’t bet on yourself contract either. Guy is gonna be after 10 years 500 million in a few seasons.
Other than the Dodgers and Mets, no one has done anything in free agency.
#Buctober
Literally signing Walker, Santander, and Scott prob cost 60 million a year plus few other minor deal drive up the payroll from 80 to 150 for the Pirates to be 2nd best team in all of MLB to the Dodgers. If not now then when? All the penny pinching the last 4-5 years to not go for it when the window is here now is a slap to the face of fans
Give me Neil Huntington 10 times out of 10 over Cherington. Huntington built winners. Cherington signs Adam Frazier when we have 10 better and younger middle infielders.
14 comments
😂 This organization continues to find new ways to be an embarrassment to the city and fans of Pirates baseball.
The most important and agreeable section of the article, to me:
>Skenes is a franchise-altering player. The Pirates are going to be paying one of the best players in baseball peanuts for the next five years. Opportunities like that don’t come around often. We’re talking Stephen Strasburg, Bryce Harper, Joe Mauer, David Price, and Adley Rutschman. When you draft a player this good, you should build a team around him.
>**The Pirates are building a team – it’s just not a contending team.** They took a team that won 76 games last year, traded for Spencer Horwitz, wiped their hands together, and said “job’s done!” They’re on track to spend less money on payroll this year than they did in 2024. They have the third-lowest luxury tax payroll in baseball as it stands right now, and it’s January 29, so I doubt they’re just waiting to make five huge signings and flip the narrative.
I get a sense if things go even slightly south this year both Keller and Hayes are getting moved, and at that point why the hell would anyone want to sign here long term
They’re banking hard on their pitching carrying them, but just look at the Mariners
If you can’t hit, it doesn’t matter how many aces you have in your rotation
So ridiculous. The continuous challenge of being a Buccos fan.
Please, Sell the damn team Bob.
Adam Frazier?
Adam Frazier! Our savior! /s
Neil Charington is as bad as Ben Huntington
I’m now convinced the off-season we actually made solid signings (relative to us) with guys like Santana and Rich Hill we were facing getting a complaint from the league like how the athletics had this year, we actually were proactive in adding guys, every offseason since we’ve been dormant and let guys like Austin Hays sign for reasonable money somewhere else
This is ridiculous…wasting a year of Skenes….. we surely didn’t need another middle infielder. The only way this works is if Hank becomes Hammerin Hank and kills it this year in the outfield. Nutting spent Nutting gained.
Let’s face it , Skenes ain’t making this his long term home. He’s likely marrying a woman who is gonna need to make her home in LA or NY to continue her career. He’s not gonna take a don’t bet on yourself contract either. Guy is gonna be after 10 years 500 million in a few seasons.
Other than the Dodgers and Mets, no one has done anything in free agency.
#Buctober
Literally signing Walker, Santander, and Scott prob cost 60 million a year plus few other minor deal drive up the payroll from 80 to 150 for the Pirates to be 2nd best team in all of MLB to the Dodgers. If not now then when? All the penny pinching the last 4-5 years to not go for it when the window is here now is a slap to the face of fans
Give me Neil Huntington 10 times out of 10 over Cherington. Huntington built winners. Cherington signs Adam Frazier when we have 10 better and younger middle infielders.