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Pittsburgh Pirates (5x WS Champions) Ain't Nutting happenin'

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DZ83CK said:
We will see, but Pittsburgh would be insanely idiotic to deal Vazquez now without getting an ideal return. If the Dodgers don't want to pay the price, tell them to kick rocks. There is no real reason to deal him now unless you get blown away by an offer.
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I agree, but we're talking about the Pirates.
 
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Four wins since the AS break. FOUR!? Losing 13-0 at home to the Mets today.

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Jake said:
4 and fucking 21 since the AS break. They're never going to spend real money but throw us a bone - fire somebody. Pretend to care about winning, if only for a day. :roll1:

Ugly run for Pirates nears breaking point
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I dropped their closer today, who is pretty damn good, because he's only made 6 appearances in the last month.

Only 1 of those was a save opportunity

Why in the name of all that's holy would they not have traded an elite closer at the deadline?
 
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Jaxbuck said:
I dropped their closer today, who is pretty damn good, because he's only made 6 appearances in the last month.

Only 1 of those was a save opportunity

Why in the name of all that's holy would they not have traded an elite closer at the deadline?
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The Dodgers wanted him, but the Bucs' asking price - Dustin May and Keibert Ruiz - was too high.

LA was (reportedly) willing to give up one of them, but not both.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
I dropped their closer today, who is pretty damn good, because he's only made 6 appearances in the last month.

Only 1 of those was a save opportunity

Why in the name of all that's holy would they not have traded an elite closer at the deadline?
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They have him under team control for up to four more years after this season, and the Dodgers didn't want to pay with the level of prospect that it cost to get him. The Pirates could trade him for prospects at the deadline in any of the next four years, so it is not like they had to pull the trigger this season.
 
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Jake said:
The Dodgers wanted him, but the Bucs' asking price - Dustin May and Keibert Ruiz - was too high.

LA was (reportedly) willing to give up one of them, but not both.
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DZ83CK said:
They have him under team control for up to four more years after this season, and the Dodgers didn't want to pay with the level of prospect that it cost to get him. The Pirates could trade him for prospects at the deadline in any of the next four years, so it is not like they had to pull the trigger this season.
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I didn't realize they had him for 4 more years but closers are highly combustible and highly useless for a bad team.

I'd have traded him straight up for May before LA could think twice about it.
 
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Kyle Crick and Felipe Vázquez’s fight was over music

Craig Calcaterra
NBC Sports•Sep 12, 2019, 2:18 PM




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Vazquez threw a punch that Crick wasn’t expecting and then followed with another blow, and Crick retaliated with punches back at Vazquez. The fight ended with Vazquez requiring six stitches to his nose. Vazquez was seen after the game with bandages on his nose.

Crick was fined $2,500 by the team, while Vazquez was fined $10,000, according to a team source.



Crick told Wilborn he’s filing a grievance over the fine because he feels like he was attacked and was merely defending himself.

Obviously there was some simmering animosity here before the dispute over music. You’ll recall that last month there was another incident in which bullpen coach Euclides Rojas was suspended for a couple of games. That was the result of an on-field pregame shouting match between him and Crick which required Pirates players to separate the two. The source of the shouting: Crick asking why Vázquez wasn’t on the field for warmups and why Vázquez was allowed to wear t-shirts rather than warmup jerseys during the pregame routine. I’m gonna assume Vázquez was well aware that Crick had a problem with him when the music fight began.

Anyway. Vázquez is an elite reliever who is under contract through 2022 and there’s a club option for 2023. Crick is under team control for several more years. It’ll be interesting to see if they’re both reporting to Bradenton next February.

https://sports.yahoo.com/kyle-crick-felipe-v-zquez-181838626.html
 
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