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- 0:09Speaker 1: What's up, everybody?
- 0:10Speaker 2: Welcome back to another emergency episode of Bucco Territory presented
- 0:14Speaker 2: by the Foul Territory Network.
- 0:16Speaker 1: He is Platinum Key aka Mark.
- 0:18Speaker 2: I am Noah Hayles, and we bring you some reactions
- 0:22Speaker 2: to more Pirates related breaking news. Mark, for the second
- 0:26Speaker 2: time in the same calendar week, your Pittsburgh Pirates have
- 0:30Speaker 2: signed or have acquired an All Star and this one comes.
- 0:34Speaker 1: Believe it or not, via free agency.
- 0:37Speaker 2: They sign All Star first baseman Slash outfielder Slash dh
- 0:42Speaker 2: Ryan O'Hearn. The deal as two years, twenty nine million
- 0:46Speaker 2: dollars plus some incentives.
- 0:48Speaker 1: It is their.
- 0:49Speaker 2: First multi year free agent deal since evon Nova. They
- 0:54Speaker 2: can finally put what's that stat to bed and that
- 0:57Speaker 2: that is something that this franchise is desperate needed to
- 1:00Speaker 2: take care of.
- 1:01Speaker 1: They did it.
- 1:02Speaker 2: Mark, just the last time we recorded, I went out
- 1:05Speaker 2: of my way to say, you know, Ben Cherrington has
- 1:08Speaker 2: spent his capital right, he's he's traded away pitchers that
- 1:11Speaker 2: he's acquired that he's you know, hired people to develop.
- 1:15Speaker 2: It was time for them to spend a little bit
- 1:16Speaker 2: of money and they did that. This was, Yes, this
- 1:20Speaker 2: is one of the best free agents out there this offseason. Now,
- 1:23Speaker 2: I'm not gonna sit here and act like he is
- 1:25Speaker 2: a franchise altering talent. This is an above average baseball player,
- 1:30Speaker 2: a guy who would make any lineup better, and they
- 1:33Speaker 2: can find a spot for him. Yeah, he's an All
- 1:35Speaker 2: star baseball player. There's still a lot more work to
- 1:37Speaker 2: be done. I don't think they're a playoff team just yet,
- 1:40Speaker 2: but I do think they're a better baseball team right now. Again,
- 1:45Speaker 2: I'll ask you the same question I asked you last Friday?
- 1:48Speaker 2: How excited are you about this news?
- 1:50Speaker 3: Even more exciting? This is over the moon, Like I'm ecstatic.
- 1:55Speaker 3: We might not be there yet, but we are right
- 1:58Speaker 3: on the door step of being a competitor baseball team.
- 2:01Speaker 3: These the Pirates just added twenty twenty five all Stars.
- 2:05Speaker 3: They added two guys that if they were on the
- 2:06Speaker 3: Pirates last year, would have been the two best hitters
- 2:09Speaker 3: in the lineup. Yep, they added two left handed bats
- 2:12Speaker 3: that both bring power, that both have ops's around eight hundred.
- 2:16Speaker 3: This is a fantastic move. This is everything we were
- 2:19Speaker 3: begging for the monthly and up to these this week.
- 2:22Speaker 3: This is exactly what we've been saying. Hey, if the
- 2:24Speaker 3: Pirates want to compete. They need to trade for Brandon
- 2:27Speaker 3: Lowe and go sign Ryan O'Hearn. What they do. They
- 2:30Speaker 3: traded for Brandon Lowe and they signed Ryan O'Hearn, and
- 2:33Speaker 3: so it's it's refreshing to put it, I'll put it
- 2:36Speaker 3: that way. Still a lot more to be done, but
- 2:41Speaker 3: every seple of the way so far, they've been making
- 2:43Speaker 3: the right moves and it's just a really really exciting
- 2:48Speaker 3: time to be a Pirates fan.
- 2:50Speaker 2: Having covered this team obviously for a few years in
- 2:54Speaker 2: the off seasons, I would write these these wishless right that, like,
- 2:58Speaker 2: you could say, Okay, here are fifty players the Pirates
- 3:00Speaker 2: should try to acquire. And it was pretty dejecting after
- 3:04Speaker 2: spending like a whole week writing something like that, to
- 3:07Speaker 2: see not one of those fifty players. But these are
- 3:10Speaker 2: guys that would have been on those lists if I
- 3:13Speaker 2: was still on the Pirates beat, right Like, these are
- 3:15Speaker 2: guys that you look at and you say, this is
- 3:18Speaker 2: a fit that makes sense. They're in their price range,
- 3:21Speaker 2: either through trade acquisition, price tag or just free agency,
- 3:27Speaker 2: and they went out and got them. And if I
- 3:29Speaker 2: would have told any Pirate fan, you know, a couple
- 3:33Speaker 2: of minutes after Travis Williams stumbled over his words.
- 3:37Speaker 1: Full stop.
- 3:39Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 3:39Speaker 2: And if I would have said, you know, a couple
- 3:41Speaker 2: of minutes after that, like it, well, guess what, Like
- 3:44Speaker 2: that was bad? And I know you're upset that Sherrington's
- 3:47Speaker 2: back and Williams is back, and they won't commit to even.
- 3:50Speaker 1: Saying they're going to spend more money. They're going to
- 3:52Speaker 1: acquire two all stars.
- 3:54Speaker 2: They're going to acquire a top one hundred prospect who's
- 3:57Speaker 2: major league ready.
- 3:58Speaker 1: They're going to acquire, uh, like.
- 4:01Speaker 2: A fourth outfielder platoon guy who hit two ninety six
- 4:04Speaker 2: as a rookie and is a plus defender at all
- 4:06Speaker 2: three outfield spots and steals twenty plus bases, and then
- 4:09Speaker 2: a young left hander who is a project but throws
- 4:12Speaker 2: one hundred miles per hour and has a solid slider.
- 4:15Speaker 1: And they're gonna do all of this before Christmas. Yeah,
- 4:18Speaker 1: I would no one wanted to believe that.
- 4:20Speaker 3: No, Yeah, I'm optimistic, And I would have still called
- 4:23Speaker 3: you probably crazy.
- 4:24Speaker 2: Yes, And so you look at the big picture now here, Mark,
- 4:27Speaker 2: I mean, they still have prospects to trade. They have
- 4:31Speaker 2: not traded away any of their farm unless you would
- 4:33Speaker 2: to include Mike Burrows or you know, the few low
- 4:37Speaker 2: level prospects they threw in in the Oviedo deal. They
- 4:42Speaker 2: still have if depending on you know what projected payroll
- 4:47Speaker 2: right reports have been out there, probably still have a
- 4:50Speaker 2: little bit of money to spend. Don't know if it's
- 4:52Speaker 2: O Kamodo money anymore. Maybe it is, maybe it's not.
- 4:55Speaker 2: And obviously that payroll can be adjusted. If you move
- 4:59Speaker 2: a guy who's in our arbitration away, then you have
- 5:01Speaker 2: more money to spend. So we'll figure out what that
- 5:03Speaker 2: budget will end up looking like.
- 5:05Speaker 1: But for all.
- 5:06Speaker 2: Intentsive purposes, this is the best offseason they've had on
- 5:11Speaker 2: paper in the many years that Ben Harrington's been here,
- 5:16Speaker 2: and there's still room to improve. There's even small signings.
- 5:21Speaker 2: You look at some of the other moves they made
- 5:24Speaker 2: last year. If they were to add the equivalent of
- 5:27Speaker 2: like a Caleb Ferguson who signed like a one year,
- 5:29Speaker 2: three million dollar deal or something like, moves like that
- 5:32Speaker 2: for the bullpen make a ton of sense. They still
- 5:34Speaker 2: have room for that. And if you want to go
- 5:36Speaker 2: trade for a year of Alec Baum or a couple
- 5:39Speaker 2: of years of Adley Rushman, or you know, sign a
- 5:43Speaker 2: free agent if you want to extend your payroll a
- 5:46Speaker 2: little bit and sign an Okamono, like there's still room
- 5:48Speaker 2: to get better. And yeah, they're they're they're doing everything
- 5:53Speaker 2: fans would.
- 5:54Speaker 1: Have hoped to see them do so far, I think.
- 5:56Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it. I was just got home from
- 5:59Speaker 3: a home I just got to Wisconsin from a drive,
- 6:02Speaker 3: so I really haven't gotten to see like the fan
- 6:04Speaker 3: reaction on Twitter yet, but I'm so excited to take
- 6:08Speaker 3: a look because I've never seen a Pittsburgh Pirates offseason
- 6:11Speaker 3: where the fans are celebrating the moves the teams are making,
- 6:15Speaker 3: where the team's making moves that are making waves. Like
- 6:18Speaker 3: I saw someone left a comment that's like, I'm going
- 6:20Speaker 3: to go spend some money on Bob Dunion's baseball team
- 6:22Speaker 3: after this offseason. Now that wasn't playing on doing before.
- 6:26Speaker 3: This is exactly what this fan base needed. Who knows
- 6:31Speaker 3: if it's actually going to come to fruition, if anything's
- 6:33Speaker 3: going to work out next season here coming out, but
- 6:36Speaker 3: at least they're putting together an offseason that gives the
- 6:40Speaker 3: team a chance, which I haven't seen the past two
- 6:43Speaker 3: off seasons, and so it's really really refreshing to see
- 6:48Speaker 3: the correct moves being made, confidently being made, and done
- 6:53Speaker 3: so in a way that doesn't completely strip this team
- 6:55Speaker 3: of the future either. Outside of losing Paul's Skins. I
- 6:59Speaker 3: mean pretty much everyone on this team still intact. You
- 7:02Speaker 3: still have minch Keller locked up, you still have a
- 7:05Speaker 3: lot of your young pitching prospects, You still have Bubba Chandler,
- 7:07Speaker 3: you still have seth Ornandez, you still have Connor Griffin.
- 7:10Speaker 3: So there's there's a lot of reasons to believe in
- 7:13Speaker 3: this team.
- 7:13Speaker 2: All of a sudden, I want to say one thing
- 7:17Speaker 2: as well, real quick, these moves I don't know if
- 7:21Speaker 2: they happen without Paul Skins. And I'm not even saying
- 7:25Speaker 2: that the verbal pressure that Paul kind of put on
- 7:27Speaker 2: them when he spoke with me in Denver last year,
- 7:31Speaker 2: and and and he did some other interviews as well
- 7:33Speaker 2: where he kind of suggested, like, I really hope we
- 7:36Speaker 2: had some bats. You know. I just think the national
- 7:39Speaker 2: attention that comes from having Paul Skins on your team
- 7:42Speaker 2: prevented the Pirates from being able to be incompetent, and
- 7:47Speaker 2: the background right, they couldn't fail quietly anymore, and the
- 7:52Speaker 2: noise got so loud that it became a national story
- 7:55Speaker 2: to sell the team shirts and chants, and the the
- 8:00Speaker 2: disaster that was Pirate Fest and the Bucco bricks and
- 8:04Speaker 2: surf side, and just the horrible vibes that surrounded this
- 8:08Speaker 2: team at the end of the season, and you know,
- 8:11Speaker 2: the reports about how players didn't necessarily believe that they
- 8:14Speaker 2: were trying to win, Like all this stuff would have
- 8:18Speaker 2: probably just been a Pittsburgh story if they didn't have
- 8:22Speaker 2: the best baseball player or one of the best baseball
- 8:25Speaker 2: players in the world, the best pitcher in the world
- 8:27Speaker 2: maybe exactly on their team, and the rest of the
- 8:30Speaker 2: baseball world saying get this guy out of there. They're
- 8:32Speaker 2: not trying. I think it did put additional pressure on them. Now,
- 8:37Speaker 2: I'm not saying that people in their front office weren't trying.
- 8:39Speaker 2: I think Ben Sherrington's always been trying, but it does
- 8:42Speaker 2: seem like there have been more green lights than in
- 8:46Speaker 2: past years. And I one hundred percent believe that the
- 8:50Speaker 2: pressure not not the losing, because they've lost so many times, right,
- 8:56Speaker 2: I think it's the pressure that came from that losing,
- 8:59Speaker 2: that came from that absolute joke of a twenty twenty
- 9:02Speaker 2: five season that finally forced the man at the top
- 9:06Speaker 2: to say, all right, we've got to do something DIFFI
- 9:10Speaker 2: And it might just be to make himself look good
- 9:13Speaker 2: heading into a CBA negotiation. It might just be so
- 9:17Speaker 2: people stop chasing them through the concuerence. Regardless of the reasoning,
- 9:22Speaker 2: they're doing the things that their fans have been begging
- 9:26Speaker 2: them to do for a long time. Now, it's still
- 9:30Speaker 2: not enough. They still need to do more. The way
- 9:33Speaker 2: I see it right now, this is about a five
- 9:35Speaker 2: hundred ball club with the pitching. But your mission this
- 9:39Speaker 2: offseason was to turn the worst offense in Major League
- 9:43Speaker 2: Baseball into an average offense. If you can do that,
- 9:47Speaker 2: your pitching is good enough where you're probably gonna be
- 9:49Speaker 2: able to sneak into a wildcard berth.
- 9:52Speaker 3: Especially with this division.
- 9:53Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, I don't know if they're an average offense yet.
- 9:56Speaker 2: But when you look, oahearn is going to be in
- 9:59Speaker 2: a average bat more likely than not. Lao is going
- 10:03Speaker 2: to be an above average bat more likely than not.
- 10:05Speaker 2: Connor Griffin you feel pretty good about his offensive capabilities.
- 10:09Speaker 2: And then the platoon of Mangam and Garcia, you feel
- 10:12Speaker 2: pretty good about those two as a platoon. Not to
- 10:15Speaker 2: mention what they're capable of achieving individually, you feel good
- 10:18Speaker 2: about that compared to anything else you've had in left
- 10:20Speaker 2: field for recent years. And then when you add all
- 10:23Speaker 2: of those newcomers right, that's more lineup protection for Brian
- 10:27Speaker 2: Reynolds and O'Neil Cruz who have essentially had to carry
- 10:31Speaker 2: this team on their back offensively. And if you look
- 10:33Speaker 2: at their best months offensively, it's typically when a Rowdy
- 10:37Speaker 2: to Lez is rad hot or Henry Davis has a
- 10:41Speaker 2: good stretch, or a Jared Triolo has.
- 10:43Speaker 1: A good stretcher.
- 10:44Speaker 2: Spencer Horowitz turns it on when people around them are
- 10:47Speaker 2: hitting the baseball. Those guys produce a lot better. And
- 10:50Speaker 2: now they've added people to length them that lineup to
- 10:53Speaker 2: get some lineup protection, and I think make their competent
- 10:57Speaker 2: hitters that they already had better.
- 11:00Speaker 1: So yeah, and I will.
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- 11:43Speaker 2: All right, Mark, So now as we wrap this up,
- 11:47Speaker 2: I'll ask you the same thing I asked you again
- 11:49Speaker 2: on Friday.
- 11:50Speaker 1: What's next?
- 11:51Speaker 2: They signed, they made the trade, they signed a multi
- 11:56Speaker 2: year free agent.
- 11:57Speaker 1: What's next? What's the next piece of the puzzle?
- 12:00Speaker 2: And what are you hoping like when you're looking at
- 12:03Speaker 2: your wish list right, what's the biggest item remaining on it?
- 12:06Speaker 3: I'm still getting greedy and saying one more free agent,
- 12:10Speaker 3: one more free agent. Bet to be more specific, either
- 12:13Speaker 3: a third baseman. I mean, I love Jered Triolo. I
- 12:16Speaker 3: don't know if that's going to make me feel confident
- 12:18Speaker 3: if that's the starting third basement for opening day. So
- 12:23Speaker 3: I still think, you know, like Juhanio Suarez Okamoto, if
- 12:27Speaker 3: he's cheap, I still think there's room in the Pirates
- 12:30Speaker 3: budget if you just open up that wallet just a
- 12:32Speaker 3: tiny bit more, just like ten twenty more million, and
- 12:36Speaker 3: I don't think that's gonna impact the Pirates too negatively.
- 12:40Speaker 3: I think if you build a world or a team
- 12:43Speaker 3: that can make the playoffs, whatever dollars you spend this offseason,
- 12:46Speaker 3: you're gonna get right back. I mean, this is a
- 12:49Speaker 3: sports town that's going to fill up PNC Park and
- 12:53Speaker 3: when we saw that in twenty thirteen, so like, if
- 12:56Speaker 3: you build it, they will come, and you got to
- 13:00Speaker 3: put those final bricks together to build that for those
- 13:03Speaker 3: people to come. And I think in Okamoa Okamoto would
- 13:06Speaker 3: do that. I think a Uhenio Suarez would do that.
- 13:08Speaker 3: I really like the third base edition, but you could
- 13:10Speaker 3: get away with another outfield edition too this and maybe o'haran.
- 13:16Speaker 1: Can play like a little bit of right field.
- 13:18Speaker 3: But yeah, that's where I would go. I still think
- 13:20Speaker 3: you got to add a third base and if not,
- 13:22Speaker 3: maybe catcher JT. Real Mudo is still out there, maybe
- 13:26Speaker 3: bring in like a veteran presence like him, a really
- 13:28Speaker 3: good clubhouse guy to just keep everyone on track. So
- 13:32Speaker 3: that would be where I would head. Is free agency still,
- 13:35Speaker 3: but I think trade is probably the more likely of
- 13:37Speaker 3: the two options. But I just I like how many
- 13:41Speaker 3: free agents are still out there to still go out
- 13:43Speaker 3: and pursue that route.
- 13:45Speaker 2: Yeah, I think my hesitancy would be if they go
- 13:49Speaker 2: the free agent route, then they might be more inclined
- 13:53Speaker 2: to clear up some salary. And I don't know exactly
- 13:57Speaker 2: how you all right, Marks, So I asked you this
- 14:01Speaker 2: question last week.
- 14:02Speaker 1: I'll ask it again. What's next?
- 14:04Speaker 3: Yeah, So, I mean I still think free agency again
- 14:08Speaker 3: is the way to go. Trades might be a little
- 14:11Speaker 3: bit easier still, but I think there's still so many
- 14:14Speaker 3: decent free agents there out there there available right now
- 14:17Speaker 3: that you have to still pursue them. I mean, you
- 14:19Speaker 3: still need a third baseman, so look at you, Hainio
- 14:22Speaker 3: Suarez or look at Okamoto. Add more power to this lineup. Yes,
- 14:28Speaker 3: O'Hern and allow both help, but this team desperately needed thats.
- 14:35Speaker 3: It wasn't just a few bats. This team needed three
- 14:37Speaker 3: four impact bats to really just become an average lineup
- 14:41Speaker 3: in the MLB. So go out and add one more
- 14:44Speaker 3: free agent, probably a third baseman, maybe a corner outfielder
- 14:47Speaker 3: that can also DH like maybe a Marcelo Suna could
- 14:51Speaker 3: be another option too. More power again, but at the
- 14:55Speaker 3: same time, trades are probably gonna be easier. I don't
- 14:58Speaker 3: know how willing the pirates are be to continue to
- 15:01Speaker 3: open up the pocketbooks, but I think that's the best
- 15:04Speaker 3: path forward for now. That's what I would want. Next
- 15:06Speaker 3: would be a third basement. So give me o Komodo,
- 15:09Speaker 3: gimme Suarez one of the two.
- 15:12Speaker 2: I'm looking at the trade market. I think that's what
- 15:14Speaker 2: makes complete and total sense. You haven't traded away any
- 15:19Speaker 2: of your prospect capital. And I know I've said that
- 15:21Speaker 2: earlier in this show, but I'll reiterate it again because
- 15:24Speaker 2: you've been able to get so much from two guys
- 15:27Speaker 2: who might not have even been in your starting rotation
- 15:30Speaker 2: by the final week of the regular season in twenty
- 15:32Speaker 2: twenty six. So now you have prospect capital to move.
- 15:36Speaker 2: And I would look at third base, I would look
- 15:39Speaker 2: at catcher, and I'm trying to find a plus value
- 15:42Speaker 2: bat there that doesn't I mean, I personally don't care
- 15:47Speaker 2: what the price tag is financially, but if you can
- 15:50Speaker 2: find a plus value bat there that's within your budget,
- 15:55Speaker 2: I think it's a no brainer. So that's where I'm going.
- 15:58Speaker 2: I'm looking at the trade market. I'm looking at a
- 16:00Speaker 2: guy like Adley Rushman. I'm looking at a guy like
- 16:03Speaker 2: Alec Baum who can help you win now and probably
- 16:06Speaker 2: won't have a huge cost to get here. Those are
- 16:10Speaker 2: the two guys I'm looking at.
- 16:12Speaker 3: I think that makes a lot of sense. He would
- 16:14Speaker 3: I think he would be really cheap. One year left
- 16:17Speaker 3: on this deal Philly, I think kind of seems like
- 16:20Speaker 3: they're ready to move on from him, and he might
- 16:23Speaker 3: not be the biggest trade that they acquisition that the
- 16:27Speaker 3: Pirates could make at third, but he's still better than
- 16:30Speaker 3: what they have right now. He would be an improvement
- 16:33Speaker 3: to Jared Triolo, and then that would also let Triolo
- 16:37Speaker 3: back up everywhere else in the indfield and yeah, the
- 16:39Speaker 3: utility player where that's really his strong suit, rather than
- 16:42Speaker 3: just sneaking him at third. So yeah, I think third
- 16:45Speaker 3: base makes a lot of sense. Maybe another former Philly,
- 16:48Speaker 3: you know, JT. Real Mudo still out there. He could
- 16:51Speaker 3: also bring up some a lot of a decent bat
- 16:55Speaker 3: to catch her with some good athleticism and a lot
- 16:58Speaker 3: of great leadership in clubhouse present. So there's still plenty
- 17:02Speaker 3: of options out there to improve this team.
- 17:05Speaker 2: That's that's the big takeaway I have from this. It's
- 17:09Speaker 2: we're still two days before Christmas. The Pirates are a
- 17:12Speaker 2: better baseball team. They have a I think their rotation
- 17:16Speaker 2: will be better than it was last year, simply because
- 17:18Speaker 2: you're able to retain Mitch Keller and have Bubba Chandler
- 17:22Speaker 2: for a full year and Braxton Ashcraft for a.
- 17:24Speaker 1: Full and you get Jared Jones back.
- 17:26Speaker 2: So your greatest strength is going to be stronger the bullpen.
- 17:30Speaker 2: I don't see being worse in your lineup. You've already
- 17:34Speaker 2: just added two All stars, two young talents that can
- 17:39Speaker 2: platoon together. You have the number one prospect in baseball
- 17:42Speaker 2: coming up at some point this season, and you still
- 17:46Speaker 2: have a lot of time to keep adding. Again, I
- 17:49Speaker 2: don't think they're a playoff team yet, but I don't
- 17:53Speaker 2: think they're crazily far away, especially when you consider some
- 17:57Speaker 2: of the teams that snuck in in recent years in
- 18:01Speaker 2: this NL wild card. I don't think they're that far
- 18:04Speaker 2: away from being a twenty twenty five Cincinnati Reds.
- 18:06Speaker 1: If not better.
- 18:07Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's that's a reason for Pirates fans to
- 18:10Speaker 2: be excited.
- 18:11Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean this whole just this one week,
- 18:15Speaker 3: uh is it's got to give you some encouragement. It's
- 18:19Speaker 3: this is unlike anything we've seen from the Pirates in
- 18:22Speaker 3: a really, really long time. And so I if this
- 18:27Speaker 3: isn't getting you excited as a Pirates fan, you might
- 18:30Speaker 3: need to check yourself a little bit because these are
- 18:33Speaker 3: concrete moves that we've been asking for and they're doing them.
- 18:38Speaker 3: I just how can you criticize that? Yet? We know
- 18:41Speaker 3: they're not going to go out there in Gettish Warber
- 18:44Speaker 3: or like a Pedalanso or one of these big big names,
- 18:46Speaker 3: like they're not going to be in on Kyle Tucker.
- 18:49Speaker 3: But this is everything. But this is as close as
- 18:53Speaker 3: I feel like the Pirates can get. This is their
- 18:55Speaker 3: ceiling for what their offseason looked like to me. So
- 18:58Speaker 3: I'm very very please as a fan right now, still
- 19:02Speaker 3: more work to do, but where they should be at
- 19:05Speaker 3: this point, I feel like they're ahead of the curve absolutely.
- 19:10Speaker 1: All Right, Well, I think that's all we got for
- 19:12Speaker 1: this one. Mark.
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