BA or Pipeline track players they have ranked in other organizations for ML purposes, but there's no way of knowing who is available in this realm (MiL)
One guy who will be available as a minor league free agent is Wilkin Ramos. Remember him... . It would be nice to get him back and plug him in at AAA and have him available as a depth reliever.
I agree about not getting worked up about the Rule 5 when we have so many other extremely important considerations- such as our MANAGER. He should be gone and my choice would be our Bench Coach, Don Kelly, 44, who played in the Majors for around 7 years, many of them with Detroit under the Managership of Jim Leyland. Born and bred locally (Butler, Mt Lebo, Point Park).
5 years of failure on the part of Derek Shelton should have been more than enough to see him fired this off-season, but BC wants/needs that puppet on a string that he can control. Nutting needed to set it straight after this season ended no better than last season, after adding Oneil Cruz, Rookie of the Year Paul Skenes, and also Rotation piece Jared Jones. The only way the Pirates win in 2025 is if they do so in spite of Shelton. If BC wants to keep him, then he needs to find 3 BALLPLAYER/HITTERS to add to the small core group we already have at the MLB level. Start with Santander, if he has not already been signed.
Well... normally... not so important, since there should be plenty of space on the AAA reserve roster. However, there was that episode 3 years ago, where, ...
In the main portion of the Rule 5, I would take:
Dom Hamel(RHSP, NYM),
Miguel Ullola(RHSP, HOU),
Mike Vasil(RHSP, NYM),
Griff McGarry(RHSP, PHILLY) ,
Taylor Dollard(RHSP, SEA),
Coleman Crow(RHSP, MIL),
Andrew Mango(LHRP, DET),
Rhett Kouba(RHSP, HOU),
Alec Gamboa(LHRP, LAD)
...in that order!!
With other organizations having more competitive rosters is there any insight on who may be available for selecting by the Pirates organization?
BA or Pipeline track players they have ranked in other organizations for ML purposes, but there's no way of knowing who is available in this realm (MiL)
One guy who will be available as a minor league free agent is Wilkin Ramos. Remember him... . It would be nice to get him back and plug him in at AAA and have him available as a depth reliever.
Skenes comes in 3rd in the Cy Young …..
Normalize making the AAA reserve list public
Great information along with all the spreadsheets! Everything an arm chair GM needs.
I agree about not getting worked up about the Rule 5 when we have so many other extremely important considerations- such as our MANAGER. He should be gone and my choice would be our Bench Coach, Don Kelly, 44, who played in the Majors for around 7 years, many of them with Detroit under the Managership of Jim Leyland. Born and bred locally (Butler, Mt Lebo, Point Park).
5 years of failure on the part of Derek Shelton should have been more than enough to see him fired this off-season, but BC wants/needs that puppet on a string that he can control. Nutting needed to set it straight after this season ended no better than last season, after adding Oneil Cruz, Rookie of the Year Paul Skenes, and also Rotation piece Jared Jones. The only way the Pirates win in 2025 is if they do so in spite of Shelton. If BC wants to keep him, then he needs to find 3 BALLPLAYER/HITTERS to add to the small core group we already have at the MLB level. Start with Santander, if he has not already been signed.
Good to see something thorough on a subject that gets almost no attention elsewhere, even from BA.
Well... normally... not so important, since there should be plenty of space on the AAA reserve roster. However, there was that episode 3 years ago, where, ...