The Pittsburgh Pirates just put together a very disappointing MLB trade deadline by trading away multiple players with team control for players who will likely not be on the Opening Day roster in 2026. While they unloaded those players, they also kept three rentals for some outrageous reason. These were three players that could have very well landed at least some sort of return, yet Pittsburgh decided to keep them.
While the trade returns for the players they did deal weren't very strong, keeping these three absolutely made things so much worse, creating arguably the worst deadline during Ben Cherington's tenure.