Pittsburgh pirates were the winners, even if they lost this reputation a long time ago.
Pirates from the moment they joined the National League in 1887 until 2006 season Sixth Percentage According to the baseball reference, it is still among the franchises that are still active. Only Yankees, Giants, Dodgers, Red Sox and Guardians were better.
What happened after the 2006 season? Bob Nutting seized the team control. Since 2007, Miami Marks has a percentage of worse winnings in all major league baseball than pirates.
The pirates enjoyed a competitive window from 2013 to 2015, when Andrew McCutchen, Starling Marte and Gerrit Cole took them to three flat playoffs. In other words, no one can say that a team belonging to Nutting is impossible to win. But the competitive window has rode since then.
In the last decade, things have really made a dive. The three teams are under Pittsburgh, but because Marlins, Kansas City Royals and Chicago White SOX do all the time. Nobody could reasonable how Marins and White Sox worked, and Royals returned to playoffs because they allowed them to dip.
Tanking helped pirates to lead a generation ability to lead the rotations in the right -hand Paul Skenes, which performed as expected in 2023 after the first selection in 2023. The pirates still have a 15-32 record that entered the game on Monday, a speed for 53 win. 195 Even if there is a 2.12 strikes in 2/3 inning, there is no such thing as a single gang in MLB.
Also, the administrator recently fired Derek Shelton, and even though the temporary captain Don Kelly seems to be a good possibility for work, how many good players have to lead? Ben Cherington has been a general manager since the end of 2019, and since 2020, pirates went to 309-447. During this time, only Rockies became worse.
How does it look near? Pittsburgh has good individual expectations such as Bubba Chandler and Shortstop/Center Fielder Konnor Griffin playing in the classroom, but they did not make a hay in the last draft that a team that was not effective in the development of a team such as pirates and a team that was not effective in the development of player. Farm system Rows in the middle.
Pirates use the cover of being a small market team to mislead the responsibility of losing. They try to appeal to expectations, to gain patience and to spend time with fans and to point to the unit of MLB’s great expenditure and players. The finger is quite crooked. Even Income sharing money Pirates do not invest in the new payroll they receive from other MLB teams. According to information kept in Spotrac, they ranked 27th in 2025 in the payroll and 27th in the last 15 years.
Perhaps the most damaging result of not using the money in new players, Bucs reached after the season in 2013-15, but when they arrived there, it came from the open competitive window. Can they win a world series that invests more than property? Well, they didn’t come there without him. BUCS used money for players by raising the gravity room in spring education.
Nutting’s net value is $ 1.1 million.
Milwaukee Brewers comes from a smaller market than Pittsburgh, but since he seized the nutting pirates, they have done eight times after the season, and they finished five times in NL Central, including three times since 2021.
The problem for the pirates began in 1996 before the team’s share of the team. Bucs has been in general since Barry Bonds left for the free agency in 1993.
Small market teams complain about the lack of justice in the MLB’s economic system and how they need help to compete. OK. However, pirates don’t even try to win and haven’t tried it for years.
Bucs stops with its owners.
