After letting franchise face Neil Walker go two offseasons ago and trading away Gerrit Cole and Andrew McCutchen last offseason, and after lowering payroll in each of those seasons from a franchise-high $100 million in 2016 (or thereabouts — who really knows with baseball accounting), the Pirates spent the entirety of this offseason doing absolutely nothing.
Or something close to it, anyway. Their three “key additions” were Lonnie Chisenhall (currently on the IL), Jordan Lyles (who starts game one of this series), and Melky Cabrera.