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You know, Good morning and welcome to the Pirates podcast to be named later here on the D.K. Pittsburgh Sports Podcasting Network.

My name is Alex Stump.

Last week, I went into the Hayes contract extension and did a mound visit on it.

It was the Friday Insider League.

We got a lot of Hayes contract talk done.

The Brian Reynolds deal doesn't deserve as much talk because it's not the largest contract

in franchise history.

It doesn't add to the Pirates window of how long they have team control over him.

But it's really important and necessary to talk about it in this form because it was on this

forum about a month ago.

I really laid out how a player-centric culture costs money.

It's not free.

And going to arbitration with Brian Reynolds over $650,000 is not how you do it.

You don't do that to your All-Star.

And to the Pirates's credit, it took probably a little too long for this all to come together,

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