Matt Clement

He's right about that.

Foundationally, it's much better, and that's where it starts.

If you can do that and keep adding to it.

You didn't have generational talent.

You had some pretty good guys coming through.

And they took advantage of that for three years, and then they went in another direction after that.

What I'm saying is when you have it, you have to add to it as well, but you have to have it first.

I was talking about pitching, starting pitching.

They're still down the road, guys like Seth Hernandez.

He'll be here, but that's down the road.

What do you think, Matt?

Is this a good farm system right now?

That is, and that's unusual, too, to see that many guys all be up here at the same time, pretty much, you know?

What happened to Thomas Harrington?

We heard his name a lot, and then all of a sudden we don't hear a thing about him.

He's off to a good start.

Yeah.

Now, he's in his 30s, so I know it's different.

And if Tamar Johnson's ready, that makes it easy.

But if Lau has a 30-some home run season again, he goes into free agency, what do you think the Pirates do?