Hey guys, welcome to the Pirates podcast to be named later here on DK Pittsburgh Sports.

Chris Halleck and Jose Neger on here to talk Pirates baseball with you here again, like

episode two rebooted version of the podcast, Jose.

We got a lot of things to talk about when it comes to the Pirates.

Winter meetings are coming up really, really soon.

There's going to be, I would assume, where there continues to be smoke.

There's fire.

Who knows where the fire is actually coming from?

But there seems to be fire because there is a lot of smoke around this team.

And thus, we have to talk about it

and the one thing that i think we really needed to get into today um and we can go at length

for the entire episode about this if we need to just to see where it goes is do the pirates trade

Mitch keller to recoup 17 million in payroll and apply that or allocate that to the offense?

Because we know if this team is going to possibly do anything, it's going to have to be better offensively.

They have to be able to

hit. Yeah, I think that's probably the biggest question mark surrounding this offseason is,

you know, whether they do approach trading Mitch Keller or not. And I kind of can see both

sides of it. You know, I can see the the side of, okay, do we want to trade a guy who, you know, you have what you have in Paul Schains.

Obviously, he's a, he's a Cy Young winner for a reason.

But do you want to, and I think you brought this up, you know, last week as well, do you want to take away from the

depth? Do you want to take away a guy who is going to provide 180 plus innings, 30 plus starts

per year? When behind Paul Skeens and Mitch Keller, there's, you know, not a lot of question

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