The marriage between Andrew McCutchen and the Pirates was happy and mutually beneficial for years. Now it’s time for the Pirates to file divorce papers and move on.
There’s simply no salvaging this relationship; it has finally reached the point of irreconcilable differences.
McCutchen was once one of the best players in baseball. He was the face of the Pirates and the central figure of the organization’s rise out of the ashes of a 20-year losing slump. He’s a former MVP and five-time All-Star but no longer anything close to that. Just look at the analytics of just how far he has fallen in two years.