"This had better not be more whining about your stupid Pirates," you're saying.
Why, yes! It is!
It's more whining because the Pirates may have locked up next season's NL Central Battle for the Cellar by doing, well, nothing. This is because the Reds, the runaway Battle for the Cellar winner in 2018, did something.
They just completed a blockbuster trade with the Dodgers that landed them not one, not two, but three All-Star quality players.
To wit: Yasiel Puig, Matt Kemp and Alex Wood are now Dodgers.
Kemp made the All-Star team this season. Puig, the talented, mercurial slugger, is a former All-Star. So is Wood, a solid part of the Dodgers' pitching rotation.
This suggests the Reds are going to be a far more formidable team in 2019. Now, they may not be -- you never know how trades are going to work out until they work out -- but on paper this looks like a major upgrade to their lineup.
My Pirates, meanwhile, have done nothing of note in the offseason. Which suggests they're going to be pretty much what they were in 2018, which was OK (82-79) but not, you know, really OK.
Let the Battle begin.
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