Not speaking for Mike, but my personal opinion is that the money received from the Dodgers in the Morse deal (I haven’t seen the figure released yet) will be sufficient enough for the Pirates to cut Morse in the offseason.
They may figure that Tabata’s $4.5M in 2016 + $0.25M buyout + Morse payoff from Dodgers = close enough to Morse’s $8M in 2016
Long shot guess for 1B (for me) is Korean 1B Park
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