Trade: [PIT/SF] Andrew McCutchen to the Giants

[hockeykicker]

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[MMC]

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

Oh boy. Giants have very little left on their farm. Pirates going to get blasted for the return.

 

[hockeykicker]

done per ken

 

[hockeykicker]

Oh boy. Giants have very little left on their farm. Pirates going to get blasted for the return.

its one year of mccutchen though

 

[hockeykicker]

 

[robert terwilliger]

of course they won't get anything for one-year of mccutchen. they just got close to nothing for two years of gerrit cole.

they'll probably end up with 1,000 barry bonds jerseys to remind their fans how good they are at getting rid of talent.

 

[bleedblue1223]

Giants are creating a really small window with a group of players that used to be really good.

 

[Pinkfloyd]

Giants are creating a really small window with a group of players that used to be really good.

That's because they don't know how to identify and develop talent of their own anymore.

 

[robert terwilliger]

to be fair, their farm is pretty bad and can either make a last go with the bumgarner/posey core or trade everyone.

bringing in guys like longoria and mccutchen for basically nothing is not the end of the world.

 

[TNT87]

of course they won't get anything for one-year of mccutchen. they just got close to nothing for two years of gerrit cole.

they'll probably end up with 1,000 barry bonds jerseys to remind their fans how good they are at getting rid of talent.

Then they will blow smoke up the fans ass saying how those jerseys are vital to the rebuilding process.

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

 

[Filthy Dangles]

 

[le_sean]

Yeah one last gasp for the Giants before Shark and Cueto fall off a cliff.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

 

[JWK]

Please include Heliot Ramos please include Heliot Ramos

 

[Dr Pepper]

Dammit.

Was hoping Toronto would make a move here to replace Bautista.

Silly me, thinking Shatkins would be proactive.

 

[MMC]

 

[MMC]

Giants #16 prospect.

 

[hockeykicker]

Please include Heliot Ramos please include Heliot Ramos

It doesn't per Twitter

 

[Voight]

I am fine with this. It makes the most sense to give it one last go with the Posegarner core and evaluate from there. Rebuild doesn't make much sense with all the money on the books and our farm system is already trash, so who cares if we lose a few more prospects.

The tear down will come one day, may as well savour Bumgarners prime.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

 

[Blitzkrug]

Pirates fans are predictably really unhappy with the trade. A return to meaninglessness for the Pirates.

Considering how they kind of lucked into a winning team (for example, picking up diamond in the rough/cheap type pick ups in Burnett and Martin when they won 90+ games in 2013) i imagine it's gonna be a long time before the Pirates are relevant again.

Edit: Pittsburgh apparently isn't done. Teams are kicking the tires on Josh Harrison as well

 

[MMC]

 

[Terry Yake]

so basically the pirates dealt cole and mccutchen for nothing

great job pirates. welcome back to the days of brian giles and kevin young