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Welcome to site of the Best Management Team in Baseball, the leadership of the Pittsburgh Pirates! Nothing but real quotes from presumably sane men.

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`It's the single best management team in all of baseball, maybe all of sports.'' - Bob Nutting, August 16th, 2008

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@Dameshek @JoshYohe_PGH It would actually be difficult to TRY to make that many bad decisions in two years. Even if you tried, luck would suggest you'd do better than Hextall.

Impossibly bad... should have won an award or something.

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@DTonPirates Your ability to defend everything a terrible organization does like an obsessed schoolgirl ...yet blame the fans for using their eyes and ears has to be near the top in MLB.

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If today you find yourself saying things like 'Nutting will definitely spend money if it supports winning more games,' like some people today are,...

find a mirror, take a hard look in it, then punch yourself right in the face.

[Josh Yohe @JoshYohe_PGH]

@_adamcrowley He doesn’t care. He’s proven that for many, many years now.

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@coopmavs @tsnmike @MLB They previously negotiated deals with no salary cap. The other side of the negotiation is no longer satisfied.

So, new negotiation: the players will have to earn under a salary cap system. Otherwise, free market, they can play... in Venezuela? Japan? Go earn what you can earn

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@JoshYohe_PGH @JFreshHockey 😂 'Float' is the nicest possible description of him in that series against the Flyers.

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@pitchprofiler 'why you would ever spend to win' - you are describing the current system.

Owners can spend virtually nothing, still profit, and it's acceptable.

How do you prevent that? You can't force them, you can't make them sell...so you CHANGE THE SYSTEM TO...

A salary cap and floor 😊

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@Gojira97 @GiraffeNeckMarc I didn't think I'd have to say this out loud...but a salary cap IS a salary floor... they're part of the same system.

You cannot have one without the other or the economics of the entire thing fall apart.

So...again...he is arguing for a salary cap (system)

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Confirms that just like all his other posts he knows nothing about anything.

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Over halfway through the season... .500 team
12 games out
4.5 back of wildcard

But hey, they're committed!! Period. Full stop.

I can't way to see how Cherington butchers the next month...gonna be some infamy.

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Two months in... .500 team, flirting with last place, already have to leap 3 teams for a wildcard.

But watch out, they're committed!! PERIOD! Full stop.

[Jason Mackey @JMackey_PGH]

Travis Williams: "We know there’s more work to do. We know there’s also execution during the season. With that, we’re committed to making the playoffs. Period. Full stop. We hold ourselves accountable to that. We want you to hold su accountable to that."

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@JMackey_PGH The Pirates issue for decades (and for decades to come) is they build a roster with the assumption every single player will improve year over year.

If that happens, they're a playoff team. Except... it never ever happens. Everyone except the Pirates knows some guys regress.

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@JoshYohe_PGH https://t.co/JTAXgWZyaL

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@JoshYohe_PGH They're smarter than you, their process is elite, they know what's best, Ben has all the data... just look at the track record.

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@ThePoniExpress The best part is if they decide they're a seller they'll still let Ben Cherington do the selling!

Whatever the decision, the Pirates will completely f**k it up

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@JoshYohe_PGH They're smarter than you, their process is elite, they know what's best, Ben has all the data... just look at the track record.

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@AGretz https://t.co/DsPzc4CVip

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Feels like a good day to re-up this one 😅😅

Triolo is a living breathing example of Cherington's complete ineptitude as a GM... just keep rolling him out there, results be damned, somehow their 'deepest group of position players' doesn't have an alternative.

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@KodyDuncanPGH He sure mouths off a lot for a young guy that's done jack squat... In any other organization the leadership (players, coaches, etc) would tell him to STFU, but of course not the Pirates, he gets to make the rules.

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@CoulditBe_BailE @Kalibunga Yep I read it. What I meant was we have #22 overall, they had #4 overall... and they got a lesser player than Robertson (with the extra #1 included). Not to mention Tkachuk for THREE No 1s and more...

If he's RFA, it's FOUR No 1s.

I don't doubt Dubas, but prices are nuts

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@JoshYohe_PGH That is STEEP... Dubas is gonna have a hard time finding impact guys at these prices...

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Feels like a good day to re-up this one 😅😅

Triolo is a living breathing example of Cherington's complete ineptitude as a GM... just keep rolling him out there, results be damned, somehow their 'deepest group of position players' doesn't have an alternative.

[David Todd @DTonPirates]

Jared Triolo has put up a .323/.425/.490 .914 & 2 HR, 11 xbh in 114 PAs since the Hayes trade. Also w a career-best walk rate.
I wouldn’t bet on either sustaining it. #Pirates