So baseball has a new CBA, far sooner than I thought it would. For the Pirates, that’s a good thing. I had trouble resist hoping that half or even all of the season would go down the tubes. After all, the Pirates are clearly going to be very bad again and the minor league season would still go forward. The reality, though, is that the Pirates badly need to move into the next phase of their rebuild. That’d be the phase where they abandon the ultra-cheap, sub-replacement deadenders and start cutting bait on the stalled projects, in favor of guys who might represent the future in Pittsburgh.
The Pirates and the CBA: Help is Not on the Way
