The Pittsburgh Pirates have announced that they have agreed to terms with all 21 of their un-signed players on the 40-man roster. The list of players is as follows.
Arquimedes Caminero
Gerrit Cole
Brandon Cumpton
Jaff Decker
Elias Diaz
Pedro Florimon
Willy Garcia
Alen Hanson
John Holdzkom
Nick Kingham
Bobby LaFromboise
Andrew Lambo
Jeff Locke
Jordy Mercer
Stolmy Pimentel
Gregory Polanco
Casey Sadler
Tony Sanchez
Rob Scahill
Justin Sellers
Jameson Taillon
This is pretty much just a formality, since these players all have less than three years of service time, and have to take whatever amount the Pirates offer. That is usually close to the league minimum. The salary amounts aren’t known at the moment, and usually aren’t revealed until USA Today releases the figures on Opening Day. However, the amounts shouldn’t make much of a change over the current 2015 payroll projection.
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Remember when some players would symbolically refuse to sign and then guys like Jake at Bucco Blog would rant about how cheap the Nuttings were…
Good times, good times…