Pirates fans knew that Ben Cherington's uneventful trade deadline was going to come back to haunt them, and it sort of already has. Just this week, they DFA'ed Andrew Heaney after he gave up five runs in 2/3 innings, which allowed him to reach a 120 innings pitched benchmark worth an extra $50,000.
Heaney looked like he had a market at the trade deadline, but the Pirates decided to hang onto him and paid the price accordingly.
On Friday, Noah Hiles of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that another Pirate the team definitely could've traded at the deadline was getting unceremoniously dumped instead.