Kevin Gorman

$15 million on a one-year deal is worth the payoff if he's going to produce at that level.

The question is, is he gonna hit 49 home runs or even 40 home runs at PNC Park?

He may be able to do a better job of that

in Cincinnati at the Great American Ballpark.

I don't know if PNC Park, it's definitely built more toward the left-handed power hitters.

Well, I think the Pirates – I agree with you, Bob, but I think the Pirates really need to generate power from a place where they didn't get enough of it last year.

And these are two guys that have the ability to produce better than they did last year is O'Neal Cruz and Brian Reynolds.

They combine – when you talk about combining for fewer home runs than Suarez –

They combined for 36 homers with Cruz having 20 and Reynolds 16.

That the Pirates adding O'Hearn and Lau should help protect those guys, especially, and I'm not suggesting this is going to be the lineup, but there's a potential based on history here that you could go Cruz, Lau, Reynolds, O'Hearn, and that's a pretty good top four if everybody is producing.

And especially if Reynolds is playing like an all-star, which he's been two times, and

And Cruz performs at the level of potential that he's shown, which last year he shined on the All-Star stage, albeit in the Home Run Derby.

So that's the way I look at it, is the Pirates need to get more production out of the guys they have.

It would have been nice to add another big-time bat.

I think that there is a bit of a tradeoff with Suarez, given that he's a right-handed hitter.

If he's a left-handed bat, I think it's a no-brainer whatsoever, you know,

Okay, let's bring this guy in.

With a right-handed bat, I'm not sure if he's hitting 49 home runs last season.

I think I saw on StatCast, a baseball savant, that I think it would have been 42 home runs playing at PNC Park.

I'll take that.