While most of the offseason focus has been on external options that the Pittsburgh Pirates can spend on, there's something else they should be using their newfound financial might on.
Stingy small-market teams have faced pressure in recent years to maintain a minimum baseline of spending. That's led to a number of these teams handing out extensions to players, even those in their pre-arb years.
Some have been huge, like the deal the Kansas City Royals gave to Bobby Witt Jr. that will at minimum be for 11 years and $288.7 million, with the possibility to balloon to 14 years and $377.