Pirates are likely to keep right-hander Mitch Keller
July 31, 2025
Pirates are likely to keep right-hander Mitch Keller
10 comments
I don’t understand this decision. We need bats and i don’t see how we’re going to get them currently. Keller should’ve been sold off in a market where teams are willing to pay a premium for pitching. We have bubba, barco, oviedo, etc that can replace him in the rotation. Keller isn’t necessary.
I have zero complaints with this team not trading Keller, so I’m happy to see that the Pirates had an absurd ask for him and wouldn’t budge off of it.
If they’re not getting a MLB bat for him like Duran, they shouldn’t trade him. You can get good prospects for Bednar and Santana, if you’re not getting MLB help now, don’t trade Keller.
Good. We’d fuck up the trade anyway.
The time to trade Keller for hitting is the offseason. You’re only getting prospects right now.
Seems like we are keeping most of our team a plus I guess.
It’s pretty obvious that the other teams don’t value Keller like the Pirates do.
You aren’t gonna get any major league bats for Keller if you are trading him at the deadline. Contenders won’t give up their decent bats for pitcher in the middle of a playoff push.
They can decide whether to trade Keller or not in the offseason based on how Burrows, Oviedo, and even Bubba pitch in the major in the remainder of this season
Then we have an absolutely incompetent front office and GM. From the sounds of this source, the Pirates aren’t even trying to move the guy. When you are this bad of a franchise and you have someone who could be valuable in a trade to help you next season and you aren’t even considering it, then what exactly is your fucking plan?
Lets keep signing and trading for utility players who can’t hit. Trying to win ballgames 1-0 all season has really worked out well for them and their historically terrible offense.
After the Hayes trade I started thinking maybe they do have some kind of plan going into next season. But nope. It’s just more of the same.
Fine by me
On the one hand, I don’t trust Ben Cherington to get the right players in return for a Keller trade. On the other hand, you have to sell when the player is at the highest value. I would be more upset if they don’t move Bednar since that position is more volatile, and we already have seen him fall off a cliff once. They probably see themselves competing next year, and they feel like trading Keller and Bednar will make them worse for next year.
10 comments
I don’t understand this decision. We need bats and i don’t see how we’re going to get them currently. Keller should’ve been sold off in a market where teams are willing to pay a premium for pitching. We have bubba, barco, oviedo, etc that can replace him in the rotation. Keller isn’t necessary.
I have zero complaints with this team not trading Keller, so I’m happy to see that the Pirates had an absurd ask for him and wouldn’t budge off of it.
If they’re not getting a MLB bat for him like Duran, they shouldn’t trade him. You can get good prospects for Bednar and Santana, if you’re not getting MLB help now, don’t trade Keller.
Good. We’d fuck up the trade anyway.
The time to trade Keller for hitting is the offseason. You’re only getting prospects right now.
Seems like we are keeping most of our team a plus I guess.
It’s pretty obvious that the other teams don’t value Keller like the Pirates do.
You aren’t gonna get any major league bats for Keller if you are trading him at the deadline. Contenders won’t give up their decent bats for pitcher in the middle of a playoff push.
They can decide whether to trade Keller or not in the offseason based on how Burrows, Oviedo, and even Bubba pitch in the major in the remainder of this season
Then we have an absolutely incompetent front office and GM. From the sounds of this source, the Pirates aren’t even trying to move the guy. When you are this bad of a franchise and you have someone who could be valuable in a trade to help you next season and you aren’t even considering it, then what exactly is your fucking plan?
Lets keep signing and trading for utility players who can’t hit. Trying to win ballgames 1-0 all season has really worked out well for them and their historically terrible offense.
After the Hayes trade I started thinking maybe they do have some kind of plan going into next season. But nope. It’s just more of the same.
Fine by me
On the one hand, I don’t trust Ben Cherington to get the right players in return for a Keller trade. On the other hand, you have to sell when the player is at the highest value. I would be more upset if they don’t move Bednar since that position is more volatile, and we already have seen him fall off a cliff once. They probably see themselves competing next year, and they feel like trading Keller and Bednar will make them worse for next year.