As a team whose season was over long before the last out of the regular season, the Pittsburgh Pirates have had a lot of time to formulate their plan of attack for the offseason. With that, should come a healthy dose of reflection on the moves that didn't work in 2025.
At the forefront of that soul searching should be careful consideration of what exactly went wrong in what was a thoroughly underwhelming trade deadline. The Pirates already got a glimpse at what the return for David Bednar will look like, with the gem of that trade, Rafael Flores, getting a late-September cup of coffee.