Austin Bechtel

We said, okay, the Pirates need two very impactful bats or three bats.

If it's not a Kyle Schwarber included in one of those two bats or something outlandish like that, it needed to be three guys.

They've added three starting bats.

So I do feel like we're moving the goalposts a little bit because they still have a hole at third base.

No one is denying that.

But they've pretty much done what we've all wanted them to do and ask.

Two All-Stars from a year ago and someone who finished fourth in the MVP voting two years ago and was dealing with a hip problem all year.

I've been very critical of them in recent years.

But I'm giving them credit for what they've done this offseason.

I've moved my... I'm right around a B+.

Once they add another left-handed starter, if it is a Quintana or a Tyler Anderson and a third baseman...

I'm looking at an A through the microphone or through the magnifying glass right now, Bob.

I would be stunned.

Bob, if I woke up with my head sewn to the carpet, I would not be more surprised than if Antonio Brown goes in on the first ballot.

The body of work.

They're piling up.

Here is Greg in Youngstown to chime in on the buckets.

Well, Greg, also, they have so much money, they could just live wherever they want and just transplant back and forth between cities.

I don't think that's that big of a deal.

If they want to live somewhere else in the offseason, so be it.