Kevin Gorman

He's playing all three positions a little bit.

Or whether they have to move him to the outfield.

But I think Tamar is progressing.

I look at Tamar more as...

The sign that I took was that Brandon Lyle's on a one-year contract, a final year of his contract.

Kamara's really going to probably be a guy that's in the mix to be the starting second baseman next year.

Yeah, let me put that out there is I don't expect the salary cap to be part of the next collective bargaining agreement.

I think it's always the owner's stance from the start is that they want a cap and they want to have a hard cap and a ceiling and then have a floor with it that requires teams like the Pirates to spend more.

I don't see that happening.

So that's the one caveat.

But if there was a cap, and if they did it right, you would have something like a Larry Bird role where teams would have an advantage to sign their homegrown guys by being able to give them more money than they can get in the free agent market.

I think that's the one thing.

I'd be in favor of is for the Pirates having an opportunity to sign a Paul Steen and having an edge and being able to do so.

They'd be able to offer him more money than everybody else and not know that they have to lose these guys to free agency the moment they draft them.

I mean, Paul Steen's people in Pittsburgh have been fretting about that since he was drafted.

It's like, well, we drafted him for the Yankees.

They're going to get the best Paul Steen's years.

I mean, clearly that's wrong.

Paul Skeen was Rookie of the Year and now a unanimous Cy Young Award winner.

Enjoy him while you can, is my advice, because I think he's going to break the bank.