The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

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Postby willeyeam » Sun Jul 18, 2021 1:31 pm

Nogowski with a two run double BUILD THE STATUE

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Postby willeyeam » Sun Jul 18, 2021 1:47 pm

Hahahahahaha

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Postby Troy Loney » Sun Jul 18, 2021 1:59 pm

That is the number he had to come in at to make the other signings possible

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Postby meow » Sun Jul 18, 2021 4:54 pm

How is that fair? Did it hit the batter?

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Postby skullman80 » Sun Jul 18, 2021 4:56 pm

Well they blew a 6 run lead today and lost.

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Postby Troy Loney » Sun Jul 18, 2021 8:54 pm



So this basically gives them over 7mm to sign the five high schoolers. The Arkansas dude will cost at most 500k according to the reporting on that negotiation, and I have no idea what it’s going to take for that Vermont pitcher they drafts in the 5th.

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Sun Jul 18, 2021 9:01 pm

It’s such a buzzkill to be drafted as a senior. There should be a minimum bonus for these poor bastards.

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Sun Jul 18, 2021 9:03 pm





Sullivan ended up about where I expected.

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Sun Jul 18, 2021 9:06 pm

Officially $7,491,100 to sign picks 2 through 5 with any money left over able to go to guys in rounds 11-20.

Edit: with the 5% overage buffer it’s actually $8MM and change.

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Postby LITT » Mon Jul 19, 2021 5:39 am

TIL taijuan walker is still in the league

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Postby Troy Loney » Mon Jul 19, 2021 9:58 am



This could mean a lot of things, but I think in the least it means that they are not tanking in 2022

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Postby King Colby » Mon Jul 19, 2021 10:21 am

I can't decide on frazier. There's no way the trade value is that good, but he's also almost 30. But you also can't surround your young studs with a bunch of Ben Gamels or [bites tongue] John Nogowskis

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Postby Morkle » Mon Jul 19, 2021 2:23 pm

DK's new for Pirates take. It's not the Pirates fault they've been cheap, it's there being no salary cap. He's been doing this post, every time someone says the Pirates are cheap, like "no mention of a salary cap?"

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Mon Jul 19, 2021 2:38 pm

I can't decide on frazier. There's no way the trade value is that good, but he's also almost 30. But you also can't surround your young studs with a bunch of Ben Gamels or [bites tongue] John Nogowskis
I can decide on Frazier: trade him. he won't produce a gr8 return now and he wont produce a gr8 return later. But he is an all star and among the league leaders in all things hitting. So trade him now. One of my favorite post cutch pirates, perhaps my #1 favorite post cutch pirate, but his time is up. good job good effort.

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Postby faftorial » Mon Jul 19, 2021 2:38 pm

Why don't they institute a cap floor? That would at least force the Pirates to spend some money. Seems like MLBPA would be all for that.

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Postby Troy Loney » Mon Jul 19, 2021 2:49 pm

Why don't they institute a cap floor? That would at least force the Pirates to spend some money. Seems like MLBPA would be all for that.
You can't just like unilaterally impose that. I don't know how many owners are required to ratify an agreement, but there are probably at least 10 teams that wouldn't agree to a floor without a cap (Pirates, Rays, A's, Indians, Marlins, Royals, and probably some more).

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Postby Troy Loney » Mon Jul 19, 2021 2:55 pm

I can't decide on frazier. There's no way the trade value is that good, but he's also almost 30. But you also can't surround your young studs with a bunch of Ben Gamels or [bites tongue] John Nogowskis
I can decide on Frazier: trade him. he won't produce a gr8 return now and he wont produce a gr8 return later. But he is an all star and among the league leaders in all things hitting. So trade him now. One of my favorite post cutch pirates, perhaps my #1 favorite post cutch pirate, but his time is up. good job good effort.
I think one of the talking heads pegged his return as 1 decent /ok prospect and a flier. The former would be like in the 6-10 ranking for the org and the flier would be like some 19 year old playing rookie ball. I assume they'll just try to get a package of 2-3 of pitchers, the pitching depth at AAA and AA is not good.

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Postby faftorial » Mon Jul 19, 2021 2:59 pm

Why don't they institute a cap floor? That would at least force the Pirates to spend some money. Seems like MLBPA would be all for that.
You can't just like unilaterally impose that. I don't know how many owners are required to ratify an agreement, but there are probably at least 10 teams that wouldn't agree to a floor without a cap (Pirates, Rays, A's, Indians, Marlins, Royals, and probably some more).
I didn't say anything about doing it unilaterally. I would think most of the teams would want a better product but I'm probably wrong there.

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Postby Morkle » Mon Jul 19, 2021 3:16 pm

I truly don't think there are teams that want a better product. I'm all but convinced the Pirates have punted and just live off of revenue sharing.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Mon Jul 19, 2021 6:14 pm



Crick has sucked eggs this season, but didn’t know he was DFA material (yet).

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Postby willeyeam » Mon Jul 19, 2021 10:30 pm

The dbacks are hitting big dick dingers of De Jong. Good, please pass us in the standings

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Postby willeyeam » Mon Jul 19, 2021 10:51 pm

De Jong gets hit in the knee on a line drive. Which happens when you throw BP to major leaguers with no L screen. Made a sick play though to get the out

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Postby willeyeam » Mon Jul 19, 2021 10:53 pm

De Jong is married to Bernard Langer's daughter and Pavin Smith is named after Corey Pavin. They're currently facing each other. Learning all kinds of good stuff tonight

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Postby willeyeam » Mon Jul 19, 2021 10:54 pm

Corey Pavin is currently 69th in the Champion Tour standings. Nice

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