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The Oakland days are going to slash their payroll down to around $50 million, according to multiple reports out of the Bay Area.

And that'll cut loose Starly Marte, Josh Harrison,

a whole bunch of other familiar faces from what had been a pretty good team,

but that's not what makes this significant. Good morning to you. Good Wednesday morning. I'm

Dan Kovachovic of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is daily shot of pirates. Comes your way bright and early every weekday.

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Pirates payroll, by the way, for the 2021 season, the official payroll, because

you hear this number, get thrown out all over creation. And it's just one figure. It's

51.8 million, according to Ethan Hollahan, a local blogger who's really, really, really good at this sort of thing.

And I trust Ethan.

He says 51.8.

For me, it's 51.8.

And that's about as low as you'd ever want to see it around here.

You'd want it to be commensurate to the experience level of your roster,

meaning if you have a bunch of guys on your team who are what are commonly referred to as zero to three players

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