The Pittsburgh Pirates are a sham. They are a fraudulent, directionless professional sports franchise that does not have any serious aspirations for winning, and continue to be a black eye and stain on Major League Baseball as a whole. They showed that again leading up to the 2025 trade deadline on Thursday. It’s not a surprise that the Pirates were sellers. That was always going to be a given based on their record (47-62) and placement in the National League standings. But that’s not necessarily the biggest problem with what they did under the leadership — if you can call it that — of general manager Ben Cherington over the past couple of weeks. The problem is that they are even in this position to have to sell. Not only is this Cherington’s sixth season running the Pirates (more than enough time to establish some sort of competitive core), but they have a player in Paul Skenes that is, at worst, the second-best pitcher on the planet, and on some days he might be the best. They have already wasted the fiRead More
Pirates once again show they’re not serious about winning
