In the week leading up to Christmas, the Pittsburgh Pirates made a few moves that were mostly on the small-scale. Several of these moves involved the bullpen, but two of the moves shored up the first base position.
The Pirates traded for Jason Rogers, adding an interesting right-handed hitting option who had success in a small sample size in the majors last year. They capped off the first base position by adding John Jaso, a converted catcher who has played all of 20 innings at first base in his career, but whose numbers against right-handers rank up there with fellow left-handers like Carlos Gonzalez, Matt Carpenter, and Anthony Rizzo.