The Pittsburgh Pirates have some room to spend some money this offseason based on their past payrolls, and given the club seems set at most positions, they’ll be looking to extend yet another young player. The most likely, and the Pirates best player not under a guaranteed contract, is Jameson Taillon, who will be in his last year of pre arbitration.
Using his 2019 STEAMER projection and an aging curve of: +0.25 WAR/yr (18-27), 0 WAR/yr (28-30),-0.5 WAR/yr (31-37),-0.75 WAR/yr (> 37) (or what Fangraphs uses as their base). Using $8 million as the league dollar per WAR and the .