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There will be several noteworthy and potentially pivotal deadlines throughout the Major League

Baseball winter.

Tomorrow is bringing one of them that's especially important to the local club.

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right where you found this. It's the setting of the rosters in advance of the Rule 5 draft.

If you've been with this program for a while, you'll know that I've mentioned this even

while there was baseball happening, because I felt it was a big deal, particularly as it related to the acquisition of prospects.

As much as you would like to think or to have the pirates being able to just

endlessly stack prospects through the system, trade everybody and everything,

and just overload every affiliate.

You can't do it. You can't do it. There is a mechanism

in place that keeps anybody from doing it. It's been there for a long time, so long in fact that

the pirates were once the beneficiary, a legendary beneficiary in that regard by getting Roberto Clemente in the Rule 5 draft

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