Matt Clement

The only time he got the chance was the end of last year, and he did pretty well hitting.

He walked into this knowing that Connor Griffin was coming.

That's not easy.

He's always been that guy kind of make his way, but he's made his way with his glove.

He's going to be very useful to Pirates, and maybe he relaxes a little bit now that this is the situation.

If I had to guess, I'm going to say eight years and somewhere between 115 and 120.

It sounds like the pirates, like the rumors were they're around the 110.

And I've heard it would be done if it was 110.

He's probably, you know, I'm just guessing like he's probably wanting to 130 because of some of those other deals.

I think Anthony's was close to that.

I'm not sure.

So kind of falling between, you know, maybe up to 125.

I think it gets done sooner than later.

And, you know, for two reasons, I think one,

you know, let's take the pressure off him.

Let's not talk about the contract.

He's already got a lot on his plate coming up here and doing this.

So, and I just feel like the contact, the discussions they've had had to be close enough on both sides because I just, again, in no scenario can I think the Pirates don't think this is going to be a...

getting done because again you're you you'd lose them a year earlier to to free agency your arbitration a year earlier so to me i think sooner than later but i don't think there's a rush for it but for his sake for his sake let's take the pressure off and uh get that done and get that out of the way and just go play baseball so

You know, if there wasn't a contract that they thought was in the future potentially, you still would not have saw him until you saw Paul Skeen's his rookie year.