Morning Report: Andrew McCutchen is a Reminder About MLB’s Broken System

This weekend is going to be a reminder of a lot of things for Pirates fans.

Andrew McCutchen returns with the Giants, and that will serve as a huge reminder of McCutchen’s career with the Pirates. That career should be celebrated, as McCutchen was the best Pirates player in recent history, and a face of the franchise.

We’ll also hear the reminders from the very vocal boycotters about how the Pirates are cheap, and how McCutchen shouldn’t have been traded. I think anyone looking at the situation objectively could see that McCutchen has been on a steady decline the last few years, and is no longer the consistent, reliable MVP candidate he was back when the Pirates were last winning. But as Matt…