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Notes:

• Six Pirates (three in the top 50) made Baseball America’s Top 100 Prospects list (behind a paywall): #14 - SS Oneil Cruz;  #41 - C Henry Davis; #49 - 2B Nick Gonzales; #78 - SS Liover Peguero; #80 - RHP Roansy Contreras and #88 - RHP Quinn Priester.
• Five Bucco babes (four in the top 40)  made the Baseball Prospectus Top 101 Prospect list: #12 - SS Oneil Cruz; #18 - C Henry Davis; #29 - 2B Nick Gonzales; #38 - SS Liover Peguera and #89 - RHP Roansy Contreras.
• Frankie Liriano retired after 14 campaigns. The lefty spent five years in Pittsburgh, including his last MLB season in 2019, posting a 46-39/3.65 slash and averaging better than a K per inning for the Pirates. He was 1-0 during the Pirates 2013 playoff run, giving up three runs on seven hits in two starts that lasted 13 frames after a 16-8/3.02 regular season. 
• Joel Hanrahan joined the Nationals as the pitching coach for their Low-A Fredericksburg squad. He left Pittsburgh as the AAA coach, so the backstory, whatever it may be, should be interesting. Washington also brought aboard Dave Jauss as a senior advisor for player development after he was recently replaced in New York.

Hanny movin on - 2012 SEGA

• The Rays’ proposed plan to split the seasons between Tampa Bay and Montreal has been rejected by MLB's Executive Council. Their lease expires in 2027, and whether they stay or go, the TB suits are under the gun, given the timeline, to fund and build a new stadium somewhere.
• The CBA talks involving economics - caps, floors, free agency, service time/arbitration and tanking remedies among others - have mostly been show-and-tell rather than give-and-take proposals. And those issues will determine the duration of the lockout. Non-economic issues - universal DH, pitch clock, expanded playoffs, maybe even robo umps - can be settled quickly enough  in a big boy manner. But it took six weeks to get the first serious negotiating session together, so apparently neither side is sweatin' it yet, although the two parties will sit down today while the MLBPA presents its counterproposals.