Suddenly? He’s been consistent as hell throughout his entire Bucs tenure. Would be a great add to any contender, but the pirates aren’t forced to move him. Better be a legitimate return coming back.
I feel like you can’t really handwave the IP like that, especially in today’s game with everyone’s elbows exploding all the time. Keller being able to go 6+ innings 30+ times per year is a huge part of why he’s valuable. A guy like Paddack who hasn’t thrown 100 innings in a season since 2021 is by definition just not comparable to Mitch Keller regardless of inning quality.
It’s a shame that ownership was spend the money in free agency to bring some bats in. Pham was total ass and has been on a hot steak for the past month. Woopdeedoo. The only wa you would trade Keller is for actual big league bats. But you move Keller and you have less pitching, Skenes gets injured and boy you are in real trouble
He’s a hot commodity because opposing GMs know Cherington is terrible and can rip him off
If we aren’t going to contend during Keller’s contract, Ben Cherrington shouldn’t be allowed to trade him.
After last night no team should come close. What was he aiming at?
You think anyone in the Pirates front office has even considered building a team around Skenes and Keller? Naw probably not, that would be too expensive to do.
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Suddenly? He’s been consistent as hell throughout his entire Bucs tenure. Would be a great add to any contender, but the pirates aren’t forced to move him. Better be a legitimate return coming back.
>Decent starting pitching can be found for relatively cheap; the Tigers just picked up [Chris Paddack](https://www.fangraphs.com/players/chris-paddack/20099/stats?position=P) (and %5BRandy Dobnak](https://www.fangraphs.com/players/randy-dobnak/23798/stats?position=P), currently in Triple-A) for a 35+ FV prospect. Keller is having a better year than Paddack, but they haven’t been all that different on a rate basis during their seven-year careers, though Keller has amassed 4.5 more career WAR than Paddack on account of his throwing nearly 300 more innings.
I feel like you can’t really handwave the IP like that, especially in today’s game with everyone’s elbows exploding all the time. Keller being able to go 6+ innings 30+ times per year is a huge part of why he’s valuable. A guy like Paddack who hasn’t thrown 100 innings in a season since 2021 is by definition just not comparable to Mitch Keller regardless of inning quality.
It’s a shame that ownership was spend the money in free agency to bring some bats in. Pham was total ass and has been on a hot steak for the past month. Woopdeedoo. The only wa you would trade Keller is for actual big league bats. But you move Keller and you have less pitching, Skenes gets injured and boy you are in real trouble
He’s a hot commodity because opposing GMs know Cherington is terrible and can rip him off
If we aren’t going to contend during Keller’s contract, Ben Cherrington shouldn’t be allowed to trade him.
After last night no team should come close. What was he aiming at?
You think anyone in the Pirates front office has even considered building a team around Skenes and Keller? Naw probably not, that would be too expensive to do.