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I can't wait for us to be "lucky" if and when Carlos Jimienez makes the improvements we have all been hoping for with his outstanding stuff, so BC can trade him at the deadline for trash. Actually, it will be the Rockies that are lucky.

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bunch of new names to think about, appreciate the heads up.

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Pirates just signed a MiL FA OF named Camden Sanders. They “assigned” him to Indy, but he’s only 19 and never played pro ball, so I imagine he’ll go to the FCL eventually.

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Bit of info -- Sanders wasn't drafted out of his Ontario prep school. He had a commit to Niagara, but obviously the Pirates talked him into signing. This is roughly what happened with Luke Scherrer a year and a half ago. This isn't Konnor Griffin, but NDFAs are almost always from college, so the team at least is willing to try a new avenue of finding prospects.

Sanders is a 6'2", 190 center fielder. Perfect Game gives him a 70 speed and he seems to have some power potential.

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Im always in for some creativity. From NDFA to trades to draft to International FAs to the indy leagues we should be trying to find talent in every corner of this darn world

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Just so it remains inexpensive. A 6'2" CF with 70 grade foot speed is encouraging. In scout-speak that could qualify as "outstanding athleticism". The kid is an athlete and played a lot of ball with the Great Lakes Canadians 18u team. Also something about SPECTRA Graduating Student Athlete Award - Top 3 Male District Selection, Toronto Blue Jays Academy, CPBL All Star 2022, 2023, so he can actually play the game.

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How about a few coming up to the FCL/A guys like Wifrailyn Jaquez who was 17 pitching for the DSL Black, Dariel Francia and Nicolas Carreno who both pitched with the DSL Gold last season.

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We just know so darn little about these guys. I want to see the ones who get sent to the FCL. I’ll have something to say then.

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Understood. Just picking up some stats from the Pirates Black and Gold teams in the Dominican, and these 3 pitchers looked good in print.

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FWIW, I know nothing at all about Jaquez other than the stats. Francia wasn't high profile but could be projectable. Carreno got traded last summer for Josh Walker. If you don't remember Walker, there's a reason for that.

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Is there any player the Pirates have acquired this off season that would even make the Dodgers 40 man roster?

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Are you kidding me? When the Dodgers spending money like its rain drops in a storm? The Dodgers bought 6 All Star pitchers to add to their already loading starting pitching staff.

The Dodgers and Yankees are exactly what's wrong with this sport

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I’m still in the camp that brains>money, but NMR has convinced me that money buys brains, too.

The Dodgers are teaching a master class right now. I don’t like it, but I damn sure do admire it.

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Are you kidding me!! The Dudgers are simply throwing more money at EVERY star player --- they ain't no brains here

We are all being played for fools! 😂. And only I and a few others see this corrupt system for what it is ... it makes a mockery of competition

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Yeah dude you're totally the first to think of this one...so zen of you, liberal for sure tho.

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Oh, I agree the system is totally broken. But the Dodgers are showing the other big market teams how the game is played.

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The answer is having both a ceiling and a floor, but not sure we will ever see that.

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I don't see that happening. The rich teams can buy any player they want and basically use the the small market teams as their AAA franchise to trade for any good players under their last year on control. Small market owners love getting that free revenue sharing check with not having to do any work to get it. Both sides are probably happy where they are at. There should be at a minimum a floor of $120 million. As an owner, if you can't afford it then sell your team. Mlb also needs to end these deferred money and bonus money shenanigans also. That's just another major advantage bigger markets have.

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I’m all for MLB Owners Survivor, where one Owner gets voted off the island every year.

Bye bye Bobby

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No floor will fix the massive spending advantage!!! 😂😂

Kansas City is the ONLY small market team to win since 1991 ... nearly 40 years, and we have ONE WS winner from a small market --- and then their team imploded with free agents leaving.

There were 13 (!!) small market winners between 1960 and 1991. 13!! Before the widening gap of finances ..

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Who in the world are you calling "small market" to come up with such a ridiculous statistic.

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I know it won't fix it, but it would be nice if they could do something to narrow the gap from what the Dodgers are doing and what the White Sox are doing.

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We're being played for fools at the trough of the "free market" --- there ain't nothin' free in America

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The irony in pirate fans bemoaning owners who actually spend the revenue they earn on the team they own as what’s wrong with the sport.

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Not sure I'm followin' your police work there, NMR.

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It isn't irony... a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.

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It is pathos. Something that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow.

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We're not being ironic around here... sometimes sarcastic.

The Pirates are pathetic.

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You're rolling with a definitional flat tire, my dude.

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“Okay, okay, I’m shuttin’ up. Why should I continue to keep yappin’ when I’m told to shut up. I’m not the kind that doesn’t know when to stop.”

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Fargo is in my top 5 favorite movies so I dig the reference

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Love me some wabbit

The one word missing is empathy

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your "pathos" sure seems to show itself in the form of envy.

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If the Pirates spent like this, there would be zero problem with it on this board.

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Sure, if they spent like the dodgers, pirate fans would have zero problems until the team went bankrupt from overspending their revenue and either folded or moved to a richer market.

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Yeah cause that would totally happen. The Bucs ain’t gonna move no matter what.

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any team can move. If nutting sells the team, there is no guarantee a new owner would have any problems with moving them out of Pittsburgh. Quit thinking that just because the pirates have never moved before that they would never move.

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Guy talks about the Yankees like it's still 1999.

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The Dodgers are having to make room on their 40 man roster each time they sign a player. They traded #13 overall prospect from 2023 to the Twins. Now they are shopping reliever Ryan Brasier, who had a .96 whip for him in the bullpen last year.

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Horwitz as a bench guy, maybe.

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Fangraphs think highly of hike, ZIP projections are out, second best player after Cruz and ahead of BRey.

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Somehow him became hike, and yet when I tried to type hike just now autocorrect chose home

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Autocorrect is dyslexic.

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ouch, man

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