I wish being a Pittsburgh Pirates fan became more palatable as the years went by, but that unfortunately hasn’t been the case. It’s become exhausting trying to find any underlying metric that might offer a glimpse of hope, but the reality continues to be that the Pirates and Ben Cherington are playing the long game. The very long game.
On the surface, trading for Ji-man Choi and then signing Carlos Santana piqued interest that the tides were changing. Then the Winter Meetings came and went with the Pirates snuggling right back into business as usual.
In a couple weeks, the calendar will flip to 2023, and then we’ll be counting down the days in anticipation of pitchers and catchers reporting on February 15th.