The Pittsburgh Pirates must get creative to solve their poor offensive situation in the organization. The MLB trade deadline is going to be where Ben Cherington does his best work to save his job, and he must do more than just sell off all of the Pirates' top players.
One way he can preserve the major league talent, while still making trades in a "non-buying" way, is by modeling the Quinn Priester deal from the last deadline.
In the Priester trade, Pittsburgh flipped the young right-hander for a Nick Yorke, a solid hitting prospect blocked in the major league organization.