The Pirates offseason passivity

While the Pittsburgh Pirates front office likely were busy patting themselves on the back yesterday during the last day of the winter meetings for letting the Atlanta Braves pay them to take Marco Gonzales, a soft-tossing lefty coming off a major nerve injury and a surgery with a terrible track record, Eduardo Rodriguez signed a four-year $80 million contract to pitch for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Jeimer Candelario also signed a contract for three years with the division rival Cincinnati Reds for $45 million. Left-handed starter Wade Miley resigned with the Milwaukee Brewers recently for... blah blah blah, you could talk yourself blue in the face playing that game at this point. All players the Pirates could have afforded.