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Ask BD: Where does Andrew McCutchen rate in Pirates franchise history?

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Hank Chadwick: If Andrew McCutchen were traded tomorrow, where would you place him among all-time Pirate greats?

For whatever it's worth, McCutchen ranks 14th among all players in bWAR with the Pirates, with 37 -- just behind Ralph Kiner, Bob Friend and Sam Leever and just ahead of Tommy Leach, Pie Traynor and Bill Mazeroski. The fact that guys like Kiner, Traynor and Mazeroski are widely known Pirates legends while Leever and Leach are relatively obscure illustrates the difficulty in putting the career of a player like McCutchen into historical perspective, so as for how to rate him, well, your mileage may vary.