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Although Pirates management is hesitant to use the word, it's obvious by the trading in July of Jason Bay and Xavier Nady they are in a full-bore rebuilding mode. That's a reasonable, although not clear-cut, course considering where the team was at the time of the trades and it's chances of getting significantly better in the future. But here's a question about that rebuilding: Is it being done to put a better product on the field in the future or is it being done, in a familiar refrain for the franchise, to lower the payroll. President Frank Coonelly and general manager Neil Huntington likely would react with indignation to the suggestion their motives weren't strictly to improve the team. But their actions speak for themselves.

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September 14, 2008  10:25 AM ET
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Is it really considered "rebuilding" if you never really had anything built in the first place?

September 14, 2008  10:53 AM ET
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Lowering payroll isn't a sin. I look at the Rays, Marlins and Twins and long ago realized that my team is lacking in scouting, coaching, general management and ownership.

September 14, 2008  12:59 PM ET
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Originally posted 10:25 AM ET  09.14 by TFBuckFutter

Is it really considered "rebuilding" if you never really had anything built in the first place?

i know it was long ago, in a league very diferent than todays.......but they where one of the top teams in the NL in the early 90's. (bonds, bonnila, drabak, van slyke, leland.....

September 14, 2008  03:26 PM ET
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It's guaranteeing profits. That's the bottom line for NUTting. Winning is not part of the equation for current ownership.

September 14, 2008  03:50 PM ET
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Of course they were......

September 14, 2008  04:20 PM ET
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MATTUSA, I recognize that....and, were it 1993, and this were happening, than the "rebuilding" tag would apply.....however, when you go from the top to the bottom, and then repeatedly dismantle a bottom-dwellar, that's not another round of "rebuilding"....It's just continuing to be terrible.

 
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