The Pittsburgh Pirates have already secured their sixth consecutive shedding season and twenty eighth prior to now 34 years courting again to the beginning of the 1990 season. There are a whole lot of points with the group which have produced that run of futility.
Unhealthy participant growth. Unhealthy participant analysis. Unhealthy managing. Unhealthy basic managers. Simply a whole lot of dangerous stuff.
All of these areas fall underneath the identical umbrella that’s the true difficulty with the franchise — dangerous, penny-pinching possession. That was on show once more on Tuesday afternoon.
Simply earlier than the Pirates opened their closing homestand of the season towards the Milwaukee Brewers, the group introduced that first baseman Rowdy Tellez and outfielder Michael A. Taylor had been designated for task. The timing of the strikes was weird, primarily as a result of there are solely six video games remaining within the season and each gamers had been semi-regulars all 12 months.
Within the case of Tellez, it’s particularly suspicious as a result of he was reportedly simply 4 plate appearances away from a $200,000 bonus.
