OT: Pirates Talk: That Skenes guy is okay at teh baseball

[Empoleon8771]

Most of the positive moves that this organization tends to make feel like step 1 or even step 0 to something that needs to be bigger.

Clearing the roster spots of guys who aren't going to make an impact (or worse) like BDLC or Joe is a good thing. Purely stating the obvious, but the needed next step is finding something on offense that is going to be actual impact.

Even if we take a swing at a BDLC/Joe type reclamation/upside who is two years younger, that's not enough. Personally, I am pessimistic that we'll do anything like that. I don't have the energy to dream up potential possible scenarios -- it's signing Santander, or boldly figuring out some way to trade a guy like Jones or Chandler for a meaningful bat, etc. We'll see.

First of all, welcome back. Was wondering where you had gone.

I agree with you generally, but the reason I’d go with a reclamation/upside to replace DLC is because it gives you more money to use elsewhere. This team has quite a few holes it needs to address and Nutting wouldn’t approve the money needed to fill all of them in free agency. The appeal of going for someone like Hays in my eyes is that it fills a roster spot with a legitimate MLBer with legitimately good upside for not super expensive.

It’s a dream scenario, but I’d be hoping to sign Hays to like a 1 year, $5 million deal and Walker to a 3 year, $60 million deal. Go cheap with Hays to fill the RF spot to go big at 1B.