The Pittsburgh Pirates’ offense was abysmal in 2025. Despite having the fourth-most games in baseball - and the third-most games in the NL - where the team's hurlers allowed three or fewer earned runs, Pittsburgh still racked up 25 losses in those games. That mark was the NL's worst, and second in all of baseball to the 102-loss Chicago White Sox. While hindsight is 20/20, it sure would have been nice if the Pirates hadn’t thrown in the towel on Miguel Andújar as quickly as they did after uncovering him initially.
Andújar once looked like a building block for the New York Yankees after he finished second in AL Rookie of the Year voting in 2018.