CORRECTION: Mitch Keller and the Pirates Tie the Knot

The FanGraphs Newsletter, February 23, 2024 [READ IN BROWSER]( February 23, 2024 Apparently MLB's uniform supplier isn't the only one having a bad week. Please accept this corrected version of the newsletter that properly identifies MITCH Keller as the pitcher who signed a five-year extension with the Pirates. It’s been a quiet winter in Pittsburgh. The Pirates lost almost no one from last year’s 76-86 team, but they didn’t add many players either. Their biggest acquisition is probably Aroldis Chapman. After that, it’s Marco Gonzales, Rowdy Tellez, Yasmani Grandal, or Martín Pérez. They’re competent major leaguers all, but hardly exciting additions. But as it turns out, the Pirates had another move to make, and it’s a welcome one: extending Mitch Keller on a five-year deal. This is both exciting and necessary, at least in our opinion. The Pirates haven’t developed many effective starting pitchers in the last, well, ever. Only one Pirates starter in the past decade has eclipsed 10 WAR with the team: Gerrit Cole with 13. After that, their success stories are Jameson Taillon, Joe Musgrove, and, well… Iván Nova is sixth on the list, and that came in 2.5 years after the Yankees traded him to Pittsburgh. As Stephen Nesbitt and Ken Rosenthal recently chronicled in The Athletic, it’s been an ugly decade for baseball in the Steel City. [Read More]( [Giancarlo Stanton Tries to Change Things Up After a Dreadful 2023]( An injury-marred, below replacement–level campaign has led the slugger to adjust his conditioning and his swing. | by Jay Jaffe [Names to Know: 100 More Relevant Prospects]( With the Top 100 main course served, a prospect dessert. | by Eric Longenhagen and Tess Taruskin [What About Cuas? What About All the Times You Said You Had the Answers?]( Jose Cuas was once a slugging infielder at the University of Maryland. Now, he’s a Cubs side-armer with an intriguing new pitch. | by Michael Baumann [Masataka Yoshida Lost Himself]( His legendary plate discipline took a turn for the worse during the second half of last season. | by Jake Mailhot [The Rays Got Amed Rosario for a Song. What Does It All Mean?]( What can Rosario teach us about the entire free agent market? Hopefully at least 1,500 words worth of insights. | by Ben Clemens 🎧 [Effectively Wild Episode 2128: Season Preview Series: Diamondbacks and Brewers]( [DOWNLOAD THE FANGRAPHS APP]( [FanGraphs & Effectively Wild Merch Is Now Available at BreakingT!]( [ORDER HERE]( [2024 MLB draft rankings: Top NCAA and high school prospects]( by Kiley McDaniel, ESPN ($) [Introducing Str-ICR: A Simple Way To Look At Pitching]( by Kyle Bland, Pitcher List [Nike’s MLB uniform rollout reaches new stage of frustration — a pants shortage]( via The Athletic ($) [MLB's HR leader in 2024? 10 sluggers with a case]( via MLB [@fangraphs]( [FanGraphs]( [FanGraphs]( [RSS]( [FORWARD]( [SUBSCRIBE]( Copyright © 2024 FanGraphs Inc, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the FanGraphs Newsletter. Our mailing address is: FanGraphs Inc 3017 N Underwood StArlington, VA 22213 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](