https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/the-pirates-neal-huntington-should-part-ways-after-the-season-but-wont/ Ideas Involving Pittsburgh Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:57:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.1 https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/the-pirates-neal-huntington-should-part-ways-after-the-season-but-wont/#comment-11878 Mon, 07 Aug 2017 17:42:39 +0000 https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/?p=8218#comment-11878 WAR , based on defense and offense its a dollars category what the player would make on free agent market- 2016 15.1mil for 3 mil , 10 mil for 2017 for 6.5 mil. Kang in 15 alone 31.2 mil in value, in 16 18 mil 49.2 mil total value for 11 mil. You knew kang had off the field issues rolling the dice the move paid off like the freese move. Freese might be a 2nd rate 3rd baseman not defensively , offensively yes much better then jaso, hudson and cervelli value they haven’t brought to the Pirates.

]]> https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/the-pirates-neal-huntington-should-part-ways-after-the-season-but-wont/#comment-11877 Mon, 07 Aug 2017 16:45:02 +0000 https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/?p=8218#comment-11877 kang is a drunk and maybe a rapist so there’s that, freese is a second division 3rd baseman and I don’t under stand 25 million in value when no one wanted him at 2 million this year and 4 million next yr.

]]> https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/the-pirates-neal-huntington-should-part-ways-after-the-season-but-wont/#comment-11876 Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:48:34 +0000 https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/?p=8218#comment-11876 Freese

]]> https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/the-pirates-neal-huntington-should-part-ways-after-the-season-but-wont/#comment-11875 Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:48:04 +0000 https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/?p=8218#comment-11875 Hudson, Cervelli and Jaso are 3 bad deals Huntington has made. Kang outperformed his deal in year 1- 32.1 mil value he gave the Pirates (4yr 11mil contract), Freeee has given the Pirates 25.1 mil in value in the 10 months he’s been a Pirate for just 10 mil in salary. I don’t think Nutting is ready to field more questions by media on the Pirates look for extensions for Hurdle and Huntington.

]]> https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/the-pirates-neal-huntington-should-part-ways-after-the-season-but-wont/#comment-11874 Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:40:13 +0000 https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/?p=8218#comment-11874 Only way Huntington can take a risk is buying prospects. Got a few bad deals that hamstrings him – Cervelli, Hudson, Nova (is borderline , cause he’s looking like yanks Nova). At some point Nutting will drop payroll dollars down cause of dropping attendance so when Huntington has a chance to buy some prospects like taking on Watson money for a better prospect you do it. He had 6.5 mil to spend on that which he has spent on Kontos and S-Rod instead of buying 3 or 4 prospects in trades , Watson, Nicasio, etc. Huntington stands nearly pat.

]]> https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/the-pirates-neal-huntington-should-part-ways-after-the-season-but-wont/#comment-11873 Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:30:42 +0000 https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/?p=8218#comment-11873 Huntington is Nutting boy, Hurdle is Huntingtons guy. Huntington deflects the light slams at Nutting to himself so Nutting doesn’t have to answer questions about payroll over and over again. Nutting is left out of this cause Huntington has that hold over Pirates podcasters and media in Pittsburgh you take shots at Pirates i will shun you from access to the Pirates. So you will probably see extensions for both when its said and done.

]]> https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/the-pirates-neal-huntington-should-part-ways-after-the-season-but-wont/#comment-11872 Mon, 07 Aug 2017 02:02:24 +0000 https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/?p=8218#comment-11872 The Pirates, for all of their history, have never had a true, bona-fide stud of a starter. Sure, they’ve had many good ones, and a few who were great for a season or two, but this club is long overdue for a starter in the mold of Steve Carlton, Jim Palmer or Pedro Martinez.

]]> https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/the-pirates-neal-huntington-should-part-ways-after-the-season-but-wont/#comment-11870 Sun, 06 Aug 2017 19:29:51 +0000 https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/?p=8218#comment-11870 Thanks for finding TPOP. Hope you keep coming back.

]]> https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/the-pirates-neal-huntington-should-part-ways-after-the-season-but-wont/#comment-11869 Sun, 06 Aug 2017 18:32:43 +0000 https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/?p=8218#comment-11869 While Quintana’s salary would be reasonable for most teams, you have to look at it from the Nutting point of view. Over $35 mil. for Quintana for 4 yrs. vs a Tallion or Glasnow rookie salary for 2 yrs and several more before arbitration. Bottom line Bob!

]]> https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/the-pirates-neal-huntington-should-part-ways-after-the-season-but-wont/#comment-11868 Sun, 06 Aug 2017 15:04:11 +0000 https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/?p=8218#comment-11868 What a pleasant find this blog is. Happy to see at least one more site that can take objective look at the Pirates mode of operation.

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