What The Pirates Did At The Deadline

What, me worry?

Here you go, a summary of the moves all in one convenient spreadsheet that Bucco GM Ben Cherrington made to improve our Pittsburgh Pirates at the 2025 MLB Trade Deadline.

GONE	ACQUIRED
Adam Frazier to Royals	Cam Devanney, 28, INF
Ke’Bryan Hayes to Reds	Taylor Rodgers, 34, P
	Sammy Stafura, 20, INF
	Jeter Martinez, 19, P
Taylor Rodgers to Mariners	Ivan Brethowr, 22, OF
Bailey Falter to Royals	Evan Sisk, 27, P
	Callan Moss, 21, 1B
David Bednar to Yankees	Rafael Flores, 24, C
	Edgleen Perez, 19, C
	Brian Sanchez, 21, OF

My comments:

Taylor Rodgers gets traded the day after they acquire him.  I wonder if he will one day show up and play in the Pirates Alumni Golf Outing?

Perhaps Devanney, who was immediately sent to Indianapolis, will be called up to be a spare infielder now that Hayes is gone, and maybe Sisk will be on the team this year to replace Falter and/or Bednar.  Other than those two nondescript players, not  a single person acquired will help the Pirates this season, but since they are going nowhere anyway, so what?

None of the other players acquired figure to help the Pirates in 2025 (see above comment), and given the ages of guys like Stafura, Martinez, Perez, and Sanchez, they probably won't be in Pittsburgh until 2027 or 2028.  In other words, GMBC has brought in what the Pirates value the most: PROSPECTS, none of whom ever seem to pan out once they get into the Pirates system.

While I realize that there is no hope for 2025, to trade Bednar, perhaps their most effective player and certainly one of their most popular ones, and not get somebody, anybody who can contribute to the major league team now, today is irresponsible and ridiculous.  I mean, throw the fans a goddam bone once in awhile, willya?

But, hey, maybe Jeter Martinez will turn out to pitch like Pedro Martinez, maybe Callan Moss will play first and hit home runs like Jim Thome, and maybe Edgleen Perez will be the next Johnny Bench, well, then those 2030 Pirates will be a force with which to be reckoned in major league baseball.  Of course, if that happens, those guys will soon be plucked away by the Dodgers, Yankees, or Mets anyway.

Oh, and great quote from Mark Madden yesterday (and I can't believe that I am quoting Mark Madden).  People are talking about how the Pirates have "freed up money" in dumping Hayes and his contract to the Reds.  In a league with no salary cap, Double M stated, there is no "freeing up" of money.  The money that would have gone to Hayes goes right back into Bob Nutting's pockets.  He, Nutting, has given us no reason to believe otherwise based upon his track record. 

PIRATES FEVER. CATCH IT!!