The Pirates are talking like big spenders. The Brewers know better than to panic on dialogue alone.
It figures that the first truly loud offer of the winter in the NL Central would come from…the Pittsburgh Pirates.
According to The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal, Pittsburgh has put a four-year proposal on the table for Kyle Schwarber that “almost certainly is for more than $100 million.” If Schwarber actually said yes, it would nuke the old franchise record for a free-agent deal — Francisco Liriano’s three-year, $39 million pact from a decade ago — and drag the Pirates into a financial neighborhood they have never visited before.