The Pirates’ upper management situation may be in chaos, but at least the team’s securing the 2020 roster, albeit with exactly zero suspense.
Roster Moves: The Pirates announced we have exercised the options on the contracts of Starling Marte and Chris Archer for the 2020 season.
— Pirates (@Pirates) November 4, 2019
Bringing Marte back was a given, considering he had the best season of his career. However, it doesn’t mean that he’ll figure in the Bucs’ future plans. He’ll make $11.5 million next year, and depending on how the team does he might make tempting trade bait.