Over the last few days, teams including the Pittsburgh Pirates have had to make decisions on players who had a club or mutual options. For the Pittsburgh Pirates, two players had club options. One of these players was an obvious decision while the other player was hard to figure out what the team would do.
Josh Harrison was the first player they decided to decline their option on. Harrison was set to make $10.5 million in 2019. Instead, the team paid Harrison $1 million and set him to the free agent market. The Pittsburgh Pirates likely tried to trade Harrison, but with teams knowing that the Bucs would likely cut him anyhow there would be no market.