So who was the last hitting prospect that the Pirates drafted and developed into a good/great hitter??? Think about all of the resources, coaching and draft capital spent with said results.
They could have picked any high school manager and put him in charge the last 10 years and I would bet they would they have better results.
Hasn't Nick Gonzales lead the entire NL in RBIs since he was called up?So who was the last hitting prospect that the Pirates drafted and developed into a good/great hitter??? Think about all of the resources, coaching and draft capital spent with said results.
They could have picked any high school manager and put him in charge the last 10 years and I would bet they would they have better results.
I like Nick, but you can't be serious. Several weeks of production from ONE prospect invalidates my post? YOWZANick Gonzales, who's literally on the team right now.
Gonna need more than 40 days worth of production. He was a bust 60 days ago.Hasn't Nick Gonzales lead the entire NL in RBIs since he was called up?
It's unbelievably frustrating. We basically lucked into a franchise cornerstone but in other ways are still a team that is not at all out of the rebuilding growing pains.
Ben Cherington is a failure who cannot build a winner at the MLB level. The best hope for the future would be Nutting realizing this and making a pivot, even if any such thing would be rightly regarded with skepticism. Unfortunately, I don't think we're anywhere within that stratosphere, but it's at least a good sign that Nutting is openly speaking about the offense.
I'm sympathetic to some of the Shelton complaints as they come up. I think he makes strange decisions at times, but they also cut both ways (I didn't like sending Jones out for the 7th inning yesterday but I was wrong). It's kind of weird that Cutch is a permanent DH and still needs an off day like this. But there's really no amount of questioning Shelton that can change the nature of the roster he has to work with, which plainly and obviously has multiple guys who aren't MLB quality on it.
I don't think we have the worst offense in baseball, but it's a moot point who actually does. Chicago, LAA, and Detroit are probably worse, but two of those teams are already eliminated from any sort of contention. Our offense is putrid. In the grand scheme of things, one game doesn't matter that much, but as anyone with a pulse knows, we have had way too many of these kinds of winnable games go up in smoke, and the culprit almost every time is the offense.
So who was the last hitting prospect that the Pirates drafted and developed into a good/great hitter??? Think about all of the resources, coaching and draft capital spent with said results.
Josh Bell would be my answer.
Marte. He wasn't drafted but he was signed and developed by the Pirates.
Polanco....maybe. Around the same time as Marte but broke himself.
Austin Meadows had a couple good seasons.....
Gonzalez hasn't had multiple seasons of MLB good/great hitting. He looked great when he came up but is now like 1 for 17.
I think the Pirates FO is really bad, but I don't think it's even in the same stratosphere as how bad the Angels and Rockies in particular are.It is crazy that a team that still has Trout (albeit hurt atm) can even been considered to have a bad offense. Angels really sold something for the juju of the Rally Monkey considering they will have made the playoffs once(?) in the careers of Trout and Ohtani. I mean if we are talking about the Pirate's FO being incompetent, the Angels are also incompetent in a different yet disgusting way.