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Pirates Prospects Daily: With First Base Improved, What’s The Next Biggest Hole?

The Pittsburgh Pirates have made a point of emphasis in improving one of their biggest holes from 2022, first base. Through trades, waiver claims and a free agent pickup, the Pirates addressed their statistically worst position, and invested into making it better.

With that in mind, what could the Pirates look to add the rest of the offseason? I took a look at FanGraphs and pulled up how each position performed when it comes to WAR and wRC+ and how they ranked against the rest of the league.

Position WAR (Rank) wRC+/xFIP (Rank)
Catcher 0.