Day one of Major League Baseball's winter meetings came and went without any moves from the local team.

They did talk a bit, though, with a couple of formal interview sessions, one with Don Kelly, the other with Ben Charington. We'll talk about that a little bit today. Good morning to you. Good Tuesday morning. I'm Dan Kavach, V. Kvach of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily Shot of Pirates. It comes to you. Courtesy of our good friends at the North Shore Tavern. It also comes to you right and early every weekday.

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Charrington's session with reporters never should have been expected to be enlightening,

nor should it be with any GM, really. They've got little to gain,

actually almost nothing to gain from putting stuff out into public in a setting like that

at a time like this. Charington essentially reiterated the clear, glaring really need for offense.

Pirates, of course, having finished dead last in home runs, slugging percentage,

OPS, everything across the board, and all of that's led to them being dead last in runs.

So they're going for whatever they can find,

and by at least my calculations,

they've got somewhere in the range of $35 million to $40 million to spend,

barring that little extra thing that I reported exclusively a couple of weeks ago where

Charrington might be allowed to stretch it in the event that there's some extraordinary

acquisition that can be made. Most of what Charrington addressed was that, the need and the

conversations, and more about the need and more about the conversations.

Jose Negron, our beat reporter on the scene in Orlando, ask Charington this.

Are you confident that there could be execution? And, you know, obviously, you make the efforts

to, you know, try and, you know, acquire these players, but do you feel confident

that there's going to be some execution in terms of, you know, getting guys that will help the lineup in 2026? Yeah, I am. I am very confident we're going to be able to execute, you know, between now and spring training. I don't know that when it'll happen, you know, I don't, I don't think there's any I don't have a sense of it's going to happen in the next three days or

next week or next month, but

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