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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 Kovach, H. 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 bright and early every weekday. If you're into football and or hockey, I also offer daily shots of Steelers, Penguins in the same place that you found this.

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.

Charrington 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

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