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Best Pirates Trades Ever: The McCutchen-Reynolds deal was for the best

The Pittsburgh Pirates have a history of bad trades in recent memory, sparking the agitation of fans and failing to pay off on the field.

Chris Archer, Gerrit Cole, Neil Walker, Francisco Liriano are just a few, but the Bucs also facilitated a more than quality return in their most polarizing move of the last decade.

Andrew McCutchen was and still is one of the most well-liked and well-respected Pirates of a lifetime for fans who never witnessed baseball before the 20-year losing streak, but began to decline in his later years as a Bucco.