Free Agency: No Compensation Picks for Pirates This Year

by Charlie Wilmoth on Nov 1, 2008 8:04 PM EDT

ESPN lists this offseason's free agents, including its Type A and Type B free agents. Unsurprisingly, none of the Pirates free agents (Chris Gomez, Jason Michaels, Doug Mientkiewicz and Luis Rivas) are Type A's or Type B's, so the Pirates won't get any compensation picks in next year's draft--no surprise there. Damaso Marte will be a Type A if the Yankees don't pick up his option.

The Brewers, Diamondbacks, Yankees, Dodgers, Cubs and Angels stand to gain a lot of free picks if they offer arbitration to many of their players and those players sign with other teams. (The rich get richer, I suppose--all those teams finished above .500.) The Brewers' farm system--which is already pretty good--could be ridiculous in a couple years. Milwaukee piled up draft picks last year and they're set to do it again.

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Not Too Many FA Should Interest the Bucs

Looking at the list of FA (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/features/freeagents?season=2008), I don’t see any that either would 1) Sign with us and 2) Help, Most are all too old (over 30). The only interesting one is Adam Dunn (who we talked about before), Would he come to the Bucs? I doubt it. Ateam in the AL where he can DH, would make more sense for him.

Some others:
-Horacio Ramirez is only 28 but his numbers look lousy. We already have enough pitchers as good (or bad) as him.

-Ollie Perez is well Ollie being Ollie. He is a Type A FA

-Juan Rivera (RF) is only 30, could he be a Backup OF? But why bother. I’d rather we play a propect.

-Alex Cintron (SS)-maybe replace Jack if he is traded? Might be cheap enough.

by zogger on Nov 2, 2008 10:05 AM EST reply actions

Rivera wouldn't be a bad idea.

We need at least one FA OF, maybe two, depending on how Moss’s knee comes along. I’m less confident than ever in Pearce, as bad as he’s looked in winter ball.

Cintron is kind of sketchy with the glove as far as starting shortstops go, but there are worse alternatives.

by Vlad on Nov 2, 2008 3:45 PM EST up reply actions

I agree...

Pearce is quickly hitting himself into non prospect status. I think Rivera would be a good target as we could pretty much guarantee him a lot of ABs given the Moss situation. I like Bradley but I don’t see us committing the dollars it would take to get him. I could also see Branyan brought as fall back for An Laroche.

by Slick1 on Nov 2, 2008 4:00 PM EST up reply actions