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19 straight games scoring 4 runs or less. It has not happened in over 100 years.

Pirates have had 8 quality starts in the past 10 games. They are 2-8 in those games.

MLB teams get on average 30-40% quality starts in that stretch and win 70-80% of quality starts.

Its beyond obscene this general manager was allowed to assemble the worst hitting team in history, while simultaneously having a very solid pitching team.

What can you be thinking if you can be considered the worst general manager in history?
 
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According to the report the team was given the option to put the bricks back in their original place, contact the fans who bought a brick for the opportunity to have the original brick sent to them, or just get rid of them, so the team chose option C.
 
I haven't been to PNC Park so no idea what this structure looked like, but do bricks only last 25 years now.

You know, like bricks used to build houses.
 
IMO Solak and Horwitz should be up now. Probably don't DL Reynolds, but give him the weekend off. Would probably drop Holderman and Bae.

As much crap as I give him, Davis looked much better in the box against the Mets
 
Empoleon8771 said:
Also this whole "Nutting isn't making much money because they were at a -$2 million budget last year" falls flat when you realize that the appreciation of the franchise far outweighs any sort of losses that this team could be having. The Pirates are worth $1.32 billion and Nutting purchased them for $92 million in 1996.
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Which is completely irrelevant to operations of a business. You cant cover payroll with “future bucks ill make if i sell the team”. The most you can do is take loans on that estimated value which have covenant limits.

Remember the ARam trade? It happened because mlb forced the pirates to reduce their debt ratios.

Good god people
 
WheresRamziAbid said:
Which is completely irrelevant to operations of a business. You cant cover payroll with “future bucks ill make if i sell the team”. The most you can do is take loans on that estimated value which have covenant limits.

Remember the ARam trade? It happened because mlb forced the pirates to reduce their debt ratios.

Good god people
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Why are you quoting a post from 2 months ago when it has since come out that the Pirates are one of the most profitable teams in baseball?

Empoleon8771 said:
www.usatoday.com

Playing like MVP, Mets' Pete Alonso locked in at the 'right place at the right time'

Pete Alonso's free agent journey brought him back to Queens. He's proving his worth all over again.
www.usatoday.com www.usatoday.com

"The Pittsburgh Pirates, according to information received by the players union and confirmed by several owners, are one of the most profitable teams in all of baseball, stashing a huge chunk of their revenue sharing monies instead of investing in their team year after year."

I'm shocked
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GilbertSeinfeld said:
According to the report the team was given the option to put the bricks back in their original place, contact the fans who bought a brick for the opportunity to have the original brick sent to them, or just get rid of them, so the team chose option C.
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They chose Option C because of the following from the report which makes a ton of sense:

"They claim not to possess complete contact information for original purchasers because the Bucco Bricks program was administered by a third-party vendor. In the words of the Pirates: “Without being able to connect the original18purchasers to their pavers, facilitating a return is not feasible and therefore was never considered or suggested to the SEA or the public as a viable option.”

This totally makes sense to me. The Bucco Bricks program was started and finished before like 2001. The person on the paver may not even be related to the person that paid for the brick. How would they ever figure out who "owns" the brick. Shit, back then, some people probably sent in checks and the accounting may have been by hand for some of it.

That being said, they obviously handled it in a completely stupid way. They should have gotten out in front of it when they decided to replace them with concrete and let people know that they were being replaced and that they would not be able to salvage many of the bricks and thus it would be wrong for some people to get one and others to not get one.

Then they could have offered that anybody who wanted one could get a new one as a keepsake. And that they were intending on coming up with version that used the names but in a way that would be more permanent.
 
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The claim that they were planning on doing something to commemorate the names on the bricks struck me as BS spin after they got caught throwing the bricks away.
 
"Indianapolis has not disclosed any specifics on Barco’s ailment, but he does have an extensive injury history. He would end up undergoing Tommy John surgery in 2022 after being selected by the Pirates with the 44th overall pick, and then saw a leg injury end his 2024 season after 18 games. A healthy 2025 could’ve been the determining factor for when he gets called up to Pittsburgh, and now with this newest injury, that too could be set back farther than expected."

Yeah I'm gonna say, this career is pretty much over
 
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