It’s one thing to trade big-leaguers for prospects when you’re out of the race, but it’s another to just dump players in return for marginal minor-leaguers. This especially is so when you’re one of the teams getting money from the league’s revenue-sharing agreement.
If ever there was an argument for teams to be required to spend or forfeit the extra revenue, it is the Pittsburgh Pirates. They were barely a Major League club when the season started. Now they’re barely double A.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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