Shohei Ohtani to the Dodgers, sparked debates on baseball salaries and deferment exploitation, while questions arise for the Pirates’ 2024 strategies.
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Know Your Enemy – Milwaukee Brewers 2023 & Beyond
The Brewers are in a position where 2024 is somewhere between a “transition” point, they could deal away Burnes theoretically or even shop Yelich to make room for their young OFs (Chourio, Mitchell, Frelick, Wiemer), they could stand pat, or do they even look to add?
Five Pirates Thoughts at Five – The Winter Meetings
Exciting times in baseball, well, at least it’s supposed to be. Nashville is a fun city so here’s hoping these GM’s get something done aside from ogling Carrie Underwoods gams. Let’s jump right in.
Know Your Enemy – St Louis Cardinals 2023 & Beyond
My preseason KYE piece for the Cards was definitely a miss. The team’s pitching issues were clear then, but the extent of the issues were really not clear to me then. As we have all seen, they are taking the steps to try and reverse that with veteran additions.
Five Pirates Thoughts at Five – Live From Boston
Long one tonight, so I won’t spend much time up here. The Cardinals are fleshing out their comeback story they want to write and the natives are getting restless back home. We don’t just want Cherington to go get stuff done, we want him to do it now! 3/4 of the league have done nothing or next to it, but this fan base, well, they’ve seen this act before. One by one, day by day, targets we wanted, targets local “experts” said were possible, fall off the board.
Five Pirates Thoughts at Five – Thanksgiving Week!
Can you believe we’re already here? We’re already way into the offseason, the leaves have mostly all fallen, the turkey’s are mostly already in the fridge thawing out and grandmas around the country are receiving phone calls cause they’re the only ones who know that one ingredient in the dish everyone has to have to make it a holiday.
Two guys Talkin’ Trades – Buying? In Trades? In this Economy? 1B Market
The boys have big ideas, and some of them might shock you, but big moves take big pieces. As always Joe and Justin never let you get away with all our bad players for all their good ones.
Five Pirates Thoughts at Five – Deadlines Create Action
This deadline in MLB’s offseason probably won’t be all that eventful for the Pirates. They took care of most of their pressing Rule 5 protections in 2023 during the season, so what they have left on the table barely moves the needle. I’ve touched on who they might protect, who they might move if they need more room in previous editions of this feature, and today, we’ll talk about it from a different angle along with a bunch more.
Three Guys Talkin’ Trades – Rumors are Out There
Examining the likelihood of a move is just as important as ultimately dismissing it. You have to know what you’re passing on to pass.
Five Pirates Thoughts at Five – and Away We Go
For the first time in quite a few seasons, the Pirates have a good base of young talent in place, more on the way, money to spend and a stated goal of winning in the next season. We have our own hurt feelings, letdowns, mistrust of the regime. We have the history of not doing enough, or choosing poorly when reaching.
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