2017-2018 Pittsburgh Pirates Off-Season Thread

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Wed Nov 15, 2017 2:56 pm

Pirates kicking the tires on one Neil Walker...

https://twitter.com/jonmorosi/status/930881479806242817

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Postby willeyeam » Wed Nov 15, 2017 3:14 pm

Neil would be perfectly fine to get 350-400 ABs at 3B

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Postby Troy Loney » Wed Nov 15, 2017 3:17 pm

I think Harrison would go to 3rd. Not a terrible idea, but more of a kicking the can down the street on the left side of the infield move.

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Postby willeyeam » Wed Nov 15, 2017 3:53 pm

I think Harrison would go to 3rd. Not a terrible idea, but more of a kicking the can down the street on the left side of the infield move.
That's not a good idea

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Postby Troy Loney » Wed Nov 15, 2017 3:56 pm

I think Harrison would go to 3rd. Not a terrible idea, but more of a kicking the can down the street on the left side of the infield move.
That's not a good idea
I don't think so either, but I'm not sure that signing Walker to play 3rd is a good idea either since he's played a total of 19 games at 3B his entire career.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/play ... ne01.shtml

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed Nov 15, 2017 3:59 pm

Signing Walker at this point would be like signing Ty Wiggington in 2005.

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Postby willeyeam » Wed Nov 15, 2017 4:12 pm

2nd to 3rd isn't the toughest transition. Neil played 440+ games at 3rd in the minors

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Postby Factorial » Wed Nov 15, 2017 4:36 pm

What kind of money would he want?

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Wed Nov 15, 2017 7:49 pm

His lack of range wouldn’t be exposed at 3B either.

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Postby columbia » Wed Nov 15, 2017 7:56 pm

I guess a hoped for league average player would be an upgrade. Not terribly inspiring, of course.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Wed Nov 15, 2017 8:25 pm

Signing Walker at this point would be like signing Ty Wiggington in 2005.
Gettin Wiggy with it.

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Postby willeyeam » Wed Nov 15, 2017 8:38 pm

Wow

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Postby columbia » Wed Nov 15, 2017 8:40 pm

There goes my second suggestion for BN: international small cap.

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Wed Nov 15, 2017 8:49 pm

I’d put the chances of Walker coming back at like 0%. He hates GMNH and signing him would take matching or bettering Harrison’s deal, which they want to get rid of. This is just your standard Pirate off-season rumor mongering in the name of good PR.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Wed Nov 15, 2017 8:54 pm

Wow is right. Can anyone read the article?

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Postby shafnutz05 » Wed Nov 15, 2017 9:03 pm

I always thought Rene Gayo was Manny Delgado all grown up:

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Postby NailedPenguin » Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:34 pm

D(ic)K on Pittsburgh Sports was telling Madden he heard they want to cut payroll by up to 15 mil next season.

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Postby LITT » Thu Nov 16, 2017 8:05 am

lol neil walker

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Postby Morkle » Thu Nov 16, 2017 9:14 am

D(ic)K on Pittsburgh Sports was telling Madden he heard they want to cut payroll by up to 15 mil next season.
Madden heard cutting by 15mm.

DK hear 15-26mm, but he's also been told the Pirates want to keep their core. If there's discussion about cutting payroll, they're not keeping their core.

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Postby Troy Loney » Thu Nov 16, 2017 9:15 am

I think it means they want to dump Harrison and Cervelli.

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Postby willeyeam » Thu Nov 16, 2017 9:15 am

If anyone is going to give us unbiased bucco reporting it's DK or Madden

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Thu Nov 16, 2017 9:16 am

I don't think I mentioned this, but one of my buddies works on the norf side. You know how they usually have banners for all of the key players hanging up outside the park? Right now the banners feature two guys: Bell and Rivero. So if that is an indicator on how this offseason might play out, brace yourselves.

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Postby columbia » Thu Nov 16, 2017 9:17 am

If anyone is going to give us unbiased bucco reporting it's DK or Madden

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