For many Pittsburgh Pirates fans, the trades of Gerrit Cole and Andrew McCutchen were the last straw.
After watching their team become competitive from 2013-2015, it has been disheartening to see the team regress the past two years due to the lack of proactive improvements by ownership and management. Owner Bob Nutting is simply not interested in winning. Fielding a competitive team is far secondary to the main goal of reaping massive profits.
Nutting is about to receive a $50 million one-time payment to eash major league team from the sale of MLB Advanced Media to Disney.