Pittsburg and KC do fantastic jobs of drafting and developing talent.
It’s a charade of a sport.
Good organizations are not rewarded. Now in the NFL, the Giants can be looked to as an organization that did it right. The Jets are on the uptick also. They both do it on a level playing field.
The Yankees winning a WS has been cheapened...It’s kind of like the US declaring war on Trinidad and Tobaggo. Yayyyy, we won. That’s quite an achievement lol.
“Pittsburg and KC do fantastic jobs of drafting and developing talent.”
I can assure you that Pittsburgh does not do a good job of drafting and developing talent. You have to work hard to spend 16 consecutive seasons under the .500 mark. This year, we’ll own that consecutive losing season record!
Take a look at what the Pirates got in return for Jason Bay. Keep in mind that the guy still has another year on his contract! We traded Xavier Nady to the Yankess for 3 pitchers, all of which project to be long relief at best, and a future headcase (Tabata).
Our draft picks have been downright horrible. We drafted ahead of Baltimore in 2007 and nabbed a future left handed relief pitcher instead of Matt Weiters (he’s almost certain to be a star catcher someday). All of that pitching we drafted this past decade has turned out to be a total bust. I still have hopes for Maholm and Gorzelanny), but by the time they figure it out, they’ll be pitching for the Yankees or Mets.
Overall, Pirates management has been a complete disgrace. Quite frankly, even if we had the money, I doubt a free agent with any kind of talent would come here regardless of price. We’re so bad, the team in the movie “Major League” looks good! In that movie, the fans only had to suffer through 8 consecutive losing seasons.
If MLB is going to institute any kind of cap, it’d be best if it were modeled after the NHL’s system. There has to be some kind MINIMUM salary cap put in place. While teams like the Marlins and Rays dump a lot of cash into their systems to develop winning teams, teams like the Pirates seem to burn all of that wealth redistribution on things like new scoreboards and bobblehead nights.
It pains me to say it, but I wish the Pirates would have moved 10 years ago. Taxpayers gave the Pirates $200M to stay in this city. I think we’ve cracked the 70 win mark only once since PNC Park opened. This city would go nuts if they’d just break .500 one of these years. They cannot cry poor either...Minnesota, Cleveland, Florida, Tampa, and Oakland have all found ways to win. The Pirates seem to like rolling in sub-mediocrity with no end to that in sight!