Sean Gentile

But I think that in the same token, McCutcheon probably wanted to be here so badly where he would have been willing to accept a role like that.

Kind of like how Miguel Cabrera accepted it for one final run with the Detroit Tigers.

He wasn't coming off the bench.

He was still their DH.

The analogy that you made in terms of me and where I'm at right now, I think it's different when you're hopefully at the very start of your career and trying to ascend compared to McCutcheon on the 18th hole just putting in.

We only know he's doing so well because the Rangers are letting him start.

Was he even given that choice to be an off-the-bench guy for the Pirates?

I don't think he was.

We can't prove it.

I think they just decided, look, we signed Marcelo Zuna.

We have tied our hands to him, and this is the direction that we want to move in.

Sorry, there is no room for you here, even as the 26th man.

That's the way that it was interpreted for myself.

No.

That's not the point.

There's still a role for McCutcheon if he was willing to accept it, and there's nothing that proves that he wouldn't have been willing to accept it.

Give me an everyday starter type of job.

I still think that he could have went and played in the outfield once every two weeks.

But the Pirates didn't, and that's the point.

Because they don't care about defense.