Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Pirates, and everything on the table for another team has already launched its manager and has a half-contract value of public relations for two months.
Well, except for one thing: Ace Paul Skenes trading.
When it was asked Thursday if the rising stirring in the National League this year is a consideration of the club that is saddened in the horizons of the influential situation player, General Manager Ben Cenherington gave an unusually short response.
“No, it’s not part of the conversation at all,” Chengton said frankly.
Pittsburgh has entered a series of four matches against its opponent in NL Central Milwaukee 11 games from the qualifying site, thanks to a large extent to a crime that occupies the last rank or from the next to the latter in almost every main category: from running, the percentage of centers and OPS (all thirty) to home and medium beating (both 29).
The pirates showed at least a small flash of life in the painting in a 8-5 loss against Breweers a few hours after Cherington’s conversation, where he scored five runs for the first time in 27 games. Their line consisting of 26 games was linked to four runs or less than a record in the main league, which was scored by four other teams, the last of which was then California at the time of the angels in 1969.
However, it was important that Pittsburg also left 10 runners at the base, a typical thing that pirates have not been able to constantly take advantage of the few opportunities they created.
It is not exactly what the team was thinking during the spring training, when everyone from Cherington spoke to Skenes to Director Derek Shelton-who was abandoned two weeks ago and Don Kelly-about the need for Pittsburgh to take another step forward after 76-86 consecutive seasons.
Instead, the pirates were stuck in the opposite direction since the opening day, even when Skenes started. Pittsburg is only 3-5 in its eight beginnings, which is the last loss in a 1-0 setback in Philadelphia at the end of last week, where Skienz Veles was confined to three strikes while throwing the first full game in his career.
Skiens, who is 23 years old next week, has been all over the pirates since he was summoned a year ago. It is also under the team’s control of the rest of the contract and will not be eligible for arbitration even after 2026, making it one of the largest deals in specializations.
While Pittsburg has closed players like a soccer player all the stars Brian Reynolds and the third base man Ke’bryan Hayes to long -term deals, they represent a wage according to MLB standards compared to what Skenes can one day lead if his career continues on its current path.
Pirates are permanently one of the most economical teams in disciplines. The salary statements on the opening day this season were just less than $ 88 million. Only Chicago White Sox, Bay Tamba, Athletics and Miami spent less.
However, Pittsburg received little of the return on her investments. Although the bull was a little chaos, the start of the beginning was solid. Square (2.44), Mitch Keeler (3.88), Andrew Henny (2.91) and Billy Valter (3.50) all have ages less than 4.00, yet they also have a joint record from 11-21.
The case was a largely unprecedented assortment outside the Reynolds, the concession icon Andrew Maccochen and midfielder O’Neill Cruz.
Pittsburgh has one of the deepest expectations for promotion opportunities in specializations-the list that includes the 22-year-old Buba Chandler and Mike Buroz, who gave up four runs on five roles on Thursday at his first start in the league-but the treasury is from local players who are the Grand Prix in the Grand League championships are still naked in the five-year category in anxiety.
Henry Davis, the best selection in the 2021 draft, is still working in progress after nearly two years of his main appearance in the league. The second base man Nick Gonzalez, the first founder in 2020, recovers from an ankle injury and has not yet arisen as a player every day. The previous options in the first round, Termar Johnson (2022) and Kunoor Griffin (2024) remains years away.
To date, the only only communications of Triple-A have mostly related to the injury, and not related to performance.
“We want a Triple-A comrades to the bottom of the door,” said Qington. “It will be good. I still think this can happen this year. We want more with time … everyone knows that we have to register more runs. This will not only happen by saying and hope for that. You have to do the work to do so.”
Cherington is still optimistic that the main league team will start running the corner during the last 110 games, and it is certain that Skenes will be part of it regardless of the way it is going.
“We just have to improve,” said Qington. “Let’s play the baseball game better, and this will win more games. Then, let’s wake up and see where we take it when we reach July.”
