The MLB Trade Deadline is one week away.
We’re now in the fifth season of the rebuild under Pittsburgh Pirates General Manager Ben Cherington. I think it’s fair to be critical of certain aspects of the way he’s assembled this team. The biggest point of critique comes from the offense.
The Pirates currently rank with one of the worst offenses in the game. They are 27th in both wOBA (.294) and wRC+ (88), while also finishing bottom five in the league in average (.233), on-base percentage (.300), and slugging (.370). On Tuesday night, in an important game against the division rival St.