When asked about the state of the Pittsburgh Pirates earlier this month, General Manager Ben Cherington indicated that new faces will be joining the starting rotation next season.
In the same conversation, he omitted his plan for increasing payroll, if at all, and said that he doesn’t believe focusing on payroll in a town like Pittsburgh “is the right thing to focus on,” since “a winning team is not going to be built in a way like other places.”
Cherington did allude to possibly bringing in some different names in an attempt to bolster the rotation, which ranked near the bottom in almost every statistic last season.