Dayton Daily News

PITTSBURG PIRATES

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■ Manager: Clint Hurdle (eighth season).

■ 2017: 75-87, fourth place.

■ Training Town: Bradenton, Florida.

■ Park: LECOM Park.

■ First Workout: Feb. 14/19.

■ He’s Here: 3B Colin Moran, RHP Joe Musgrove, RHP Michael Feliz, RHP Kyle Crick.

■ He’s Outta Here: CF Andrew McCutchen, RHP Gerrit Cole, OF John Jaso, C Chris Stewart, RHP Johnny Barbato, RHP Joaquin Benoit.

■ Going campin’: Pittsburgh GM Neal Huntington says the team isn’t rebuilding following consecutiv­e losing seasons. Funny, it sure looks that way. In a span of three days in January, the Pirates sent Cole and McCutchen, two vital cogs in their run to three straight playoff appearance­s from 2013-15, elsewhere rather than pay their salaries. McCutchen’s departure leaves a spot open in the outfield, where Sean Rodriguez will likely have the inside track as prospect Austin Meadows tries to put an injury-plagued 2017 behind him. Moran has the potential to help out David Freese at third base with Jung Ho Kang not expected to return to the U.S. after a 2016 DUI arrest in his native Korea. There is intrigue in the starting rotation behind Ivan Nova, Jameson Taillon and Chad Kuhl. The back end of the bullpen is fine after closer Felipe Rivero signed a four-year contract, but the Pirates will need camp to figure out who will work in front of him.

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