The Pittsburgh Pirates have a Major League development problem.
I haven’t spoken publicly about my interpretation of the issue, from my assessment of the MLB coaching staff, to my assessment of the farm system. Behind the scenes, I’ve essentially parked this Bentley of a media outlet that provides actual checks and balances on the Pirates, in an attempt to get a detailed understanding of the inner-workings of how a baseball scouting and development system should run.
The article below works from my extensive knowledge of the Pirates and their development processes over the last two decades. This is a team that can still win in the short-term, but they need to fix a glaring problem that is unable to be qualified.