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Bucco Breakfast: 2018-19 Offseason Timeline

Welcome to Bucco Breakfast, a new daily morning feature designed to help you through the offseason. Each day we’ll roll out a quick topic designed to spark conversation as well as provide some interesting baseball reading from around the web.

Despite popular belief, the Pittsburgh Pirates have in front of them a potentially exciting 2019 season. The decisions made between now and the April 1st season opener can either tip the scales towards the club making another playoff run or doom them to another middling season. Here’s the dates to watch for this offseason.

Free Agency Begins - (Five days after World Series ends )

Players who may be eligible for Free Agency must file within five days of the Series’ end.