The Pittsburgh Pirates sit at 52-49 and 4.0 games back of the Philadelphia Phillies for the second wild-card spot in the National League, and just 4.5 of the Milwaukee Brewers for the top spot. This isn’t a team that should go completely in, more of looking at avenues to improve the club in order to reward the play of the team after stepping up to the challenge. If a controllable starter comes along, that would make sense, but not a rental that would cost an enormous prospect package.
The club has 16.3 percent playoff odds according to Fangraphs, nothing exuberantly high, but enough to make additions.