{"id":353783,"date":"2025-12-17T11:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/353783\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T11:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:32:14","slug":"mlb-insider-slams-the-pirates-for-fake-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/353783\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB insider slams the Pirates for \u201cfake\u201d Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201dIf a non-contending team like the Pirates wants to sign stars like Schwarber and Naylor away from their playoff teams, they have to grossly overpay or they\u2019ll never get them. It\u2019s what the Nationals did with Jayson Werth and the Tigers with Magglio Ordonez and Pudge Rodriguez\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201dMy point is this: The Pirates\u2019 offer for Schwarber should have been six years, $180 million to $200 million; and for Naylor, six years, $120 million. Even then, it\u2019s unlikely the players would have signed, but at least it would have given the players and their families something to think about. Once the Pirates become the highest bidder on a big free agent, only then will we know they mean business. For now, it\u2019s just eye wash\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201dIf a non-contending team like the Pirates wants to sign stars like Schwarber and Naylor away from their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,194156,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-353783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-pirates-rumors","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}