No matter who the Pittsburgh Pirates team president, general manager, manager, or other front office personnel are, one thing will always remain the same, they are a small market team. In baseball, the small market teams need to find ways to compete with the big market teams.
For instance, this offseason there are two elite starting pitchers available by the names of Gerrit Cole and Stephen Strasburg. A team like the Bucs cannot, and will not, be able to sign either of those pitchers. All jokes aside about Gerrit Cole, this is the way of the current MLB; big market teams can continue to sign the “elite” free agents while smaller market teams continue to look for new ways to gain an edge.