Bob Pompiani
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah.
Where otherwise he would have been here for, what, four before they actually traded him, before he gets into year five and six of arbitration?
This is a young superstar that you can embrace, and Pittsburgh hasn't been able to do that for a baseball player
Since Andrew McCutcheon.
Right.
When Kutch signed his six-year, $51.5 million deal.
Six years, $51.5 million.
When he signed that, I listened to this station and heard it on a sports update, and I teared up as a Pirates fan.
Because all I had ever known was...
Brian Giles gets traded.
And Jason Bay gets traded.
And Oliver Perez doesn't work out.
And Reggie Sanders gets traded.
And Kenny Lofton gets traded.
And Aramis Ramirez gets traded.
That's all I had ever known.
So when they locked up Andrew McCutcheon, it was like, holy cheese and crackers, Batman.
This is for real.
We can buy his jersey.
We can hug.