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#Pirates inquired about Roy Oswalt and were willing to jump into bidding, but were rebuffed.

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#Pirates inquired about Roy Oswalt and were willing to jump into bidding, but were rebuffed.

Rob Biertempfel via Twitter By Charlie: Obviously, the Pirates are in a tough spot, but if they want to sign a free agent of this caliber, they need to do more than make inquiries and vaguely-competitive offers. I suppose doing something to sign guys like this is better than doing nothing at all, but given that the Pirates never, ever seem to sign players like this, it's probably past the point where we ought to praise them too much for trying.