The entire season, the baseball world was relatively confused as to why the Pittsburgh Pirates were rolling with Andrew Heaney in their rotation over several of their prized prospects. Thomas Harringon was being sent back-and-forth between Triple-A Indianapolis and MLB, Bubba Chandler was wasting away in Indy all year before being promoted as a reliever and Hunter Barco is a 24-year-old starter at Triple-A and is the team's No. four prospect. The Pirates could have begun building one of the sport's best rotations earlier in the season with any one of those players surrounding Paul Skenes, Mitch Keller, Mike Burrows and Braxton Ashcraft.
Pirates' cheap, disgraceful operations swindle former Angels folk hero out of bonus
