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"It's there, but there obviously has to be some sacrifice on both ends to solidify that and to really get to that point where it's like, 'Yeah, this is a good squad," McCutchen said. "That's the way it should feel prior to going into the season. That comes with signing free agents, having the right bats in the lineup and giving our starters a sense of having a good team around them that can put up some runs and work day in and day out. There's some things that have to happen, and obviously I would love to be a part of that equation. But you gotta pay to win, because it's not always going to be the team that doesn't spend as much that ends up in the playoffs. Very rarely does that happen. It does happen, but it doesn't always happen that way. For us, it hasn't happened. There has to be that. There can't just be the shot in the dark of 'We hope this happens.' We gotta go out there and make a push."

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  3. Nutting seems to love McCutcheon, so maybe this will do some kind of good. Maybe? It’s possible, right?

    I’ll never understand Nutting. I had read as a kid in the 90s that billionaires got where they are because they are hyper-competitive alpha males who have an overwhelming drive to be the absolute best and crush their competition beneath their heel, and blah blah blah.

    Where the heck is all of that from Nutting? You’re a billionaire. Get hyper-competitive and strive to be the best, and humiliate your competition. But no. We get the billionaire who somehow doesn’t give a single crap if other billionaires in MLB are laughing at him.

    Sorry for the semi-drunk rant on a Friday night, but it was on my mind today, and this gave me an excuse to vent. 😅

  4. Nutting doesn’t love Cutch. He lives that fans love Cutch and that he can be had on the cheap.

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