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Anonymous
>>376279 I still remember the teams of the 80's and 90's (early 90's). Yeah, I was in my early teens, and the team hadn't done a lot since the wins in the 70's. They were still decent, and made the playoffs now and then.
In the 90's they were actually a force to be reckoned with. Good drafting and excellent trades got a powerful rotation and some great bats in the field. Unfortunately, this was the same time that the Braves were going crazy, so the Pirates had to take a back seat.
A few years of the NLCS and losing, the Pirates traded or lost the players they had brought up in their organization, and then the downfall began.
They've done nothing short of blowing chances every single season. The fact that the Pirates could have drafted none other than Albert Pujols, but passed on him to pickup garbage, just blows me away. There's a huge list of players they passed on at #1, and everyone knew they should have taken.
The Pirates, with their storied history, will be working off the effects of Dave Littlefield for the next decade. He ruined baseball in this town for a long, long, LONG time.
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