Listen im not one of those people who are gonna be doom and gloom but come on the pirates are horrible, can someone agree with me? Can you guys tell me if this is a good idea? Ive been looking at 3 diffrent clubs and seen that they suffer from small market disease as well but are decent or dominant clubs. 3) Colorado Rockies, rockies payroll is a little better but they arent pulling in yankee $s, i think they got a pretty stable team, they have a good mix of young talent, and a few good vets, 2) Tampa Bay Devil Rays, I know tampa is doing worse than us but they have some good talent out in their outfield, Roco Baldelli, Delmon Young, Carl Crawford. 1) minnesota twins, the twins are an excellent example, they are pretty low payroll but used good trading and scouting to make a fine team, their manager came from another small market team, they used farm and scout techniques, they got young pitching and hitting, but good veteran talent. pirates trade and get nothing for it, am i right?????
2007-06-29 16:17:21 · 4 answers · asked by socci91 1 in Sports ➔ Baseball
They don't need to revamp the entire team, but probably 20 of the 25 guys should go. I'd hang on to Jason Bay, Ian Snell, Freddy Sanchez, Adam LaRoche, and Tom Gorzellany. The rest of the team could go as far as I'm concerned.
2007-06-29 16:24:42 · answer #1 · answered by ajn4664_ksu 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You mention some other "small market" teams that have talent and you compare them to the Pirates. The MAIN thing those teams have that the Pirates don't is owners who care! All the Nuttings and McClatcheys care about is how much of a profit they can put in their pockets and how they can cut costs by signing cheap talent. The only way Pittsburgh will get a decent team is to get owners who care. MLB should mandate the Pirates owners spend a certain percentage of their revenue sharing money on fielding a competitive team. Unless they do, that money should be withheld in a trust until the owners shape up or sell the team to someone who will comply.
2007-06-29 17:26:42 · answer #2 · answered by P.I. Stingray 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Start by cleaning out the front office.
New ownership would help too, but the owner cannot be fired.
2007-06-29 17:41:28 · answer #3 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the problem there is the team. It has to start in the front office.
2007-06-30 03:51:01 · answer #4 · answered by samdugan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋