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Can Castro answer Bucs’ second base question?

News about the trade of former Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Adam Frazier made me flash on the Bucs’ own second base picture heading into the 2022 season.

I was never a huge Frazier fan, although I must admit he turned out to be a more effective player than I thought he’d be when the Pirates selected him in the sixth round of 2013 draft out of Mississippi State. He started proving me wrong right off the bat, hitting .321/.761 in his first pro season at Jamestown in the New York-Penn League, and after scuffling a bit at High-A Bradenton the following year, Frazier put up a .