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Morning Report: The Market For Controllable Pitchers is Going to Be Competitive

Related Topics: Controllability, Pitcher, Competition

The Pirates are off today, and with tomorrow's game being at 7:05, they have played their last game before the non-waiver trade deadline.

The deadline is tomorrow at 4:00 PM EST, and as I wrote yesterday, I could see the Pirates making a move to add to the team. That's not a huge prediction, as they've added players in some form or another in every season since 2011. The question is what type of addition they make.

My feeling is that the best move they can make would be an addition of a pitcher with years of control beyond 2018 -- either a late inning reliever or a starter who is better than their current back of the rotation options.