Over and over your hear it, or read it: it’s all about
Pedro. If Pedro turns it around, the Buccos have a chance. Without him, well,
just forget about the season right now.
I would love to see Pedro succeed. He has
only one full year under his belt, he has shown signs, his potential
is obvious, and he wants to be a well-paid young man for a very long
time. So the incentive is there, the talent is there, and he may end
up justifying his enormous signing bonus.
We’d all love to see it and it would make a huge difference for the
Pirates this year, and well into the future.
However, I do not agree with the oft-expressed view that “for
the Pirates to succeed, Pedro must succeed.”
I don’t think it’s true, and I don’t think the Pirates’ management thinks
so either. In fact, I think they are
planning around the possibility that he is NOT a significant part of their present - or their future.
