Bob Sacamano

Eventually, this gamble will work!

Yeah and the payroll is so low. They should be willing to eat half (if not more honestly) to get the best package available). Hopefully some team is aggressive and thinks he can play to his potential and deals for him in the offseason.

Yeah, one less year of control now. If you hold onto him until say July, what kind of offer are you looking at now? Probably pretty similar to last July.

It was a slam dunk when they didn’t trade him

Yes

24 feels right around where they will be

Yeah back when the big spenders were in the "penalty box" from overspending the prior year (the old International Amateur rules).

Oh I know. Going to be bare minimum. Saw them as a good landing spot for Lewin Diaz! (A guy who hasn’t played in the MLB since 2022 but hit 50 homers in Korea last season).

Not going to happen but f*** it, sign Naylor to a 4-5 year deal. Dude isn’t going to get a huge deal, hits left-handed, doesn’t cost a draft pick.

Ramos is quickly becoming forgettable. We’ll see how he comes into camp.

Let’s wait until if we have too many good hitting MLB ready OFs before we start thinking of moving one.

Agreed.

They kind of had a crunch of infields they played at 1B anyway. Not that I think either Sosa nor Vargas is a longterm solution there.

Yeah, it seems he is more likely to be crushing homers in Japan or Korea in 2 years than in an organization.

Seems like it would be pretty easy to remove him from the 40-man then, unless there’s some rule about that now that he’s had surgery

Not sure what that has to do with Pirates horrible offense that they will not add to this offseason but ok.

And Paul Skenes went 10-10 with an era under 2. Need to score more runs. This

So you think it would make sense to trade a guy like Robert when you're trading for a guy like Varsho?

Yeah a lie would be: this team is going to be competitive the next 3 seasons haha that would be a lie people working for the team would say.

You don’t think saying that “they’re going to suck for 3 years” isn’t being honest?

Duh. They're not going to spend much this offseason or next (prior to lock out).

Plus, the injuries to the usual suspects.

Yeah, especially when you factor in that he’d be moving to a corner spot most likely if he were here.

Right? And even toss in about how they should be allowed to interview for the GM job? Craaaazy

We need more teams out West.