Bucs wasting chance to build contender around Skenes

One of the big debates last week on sports talk shows has been whether the Pirates should trade pitcher Paul Skenes for a bevy of players and prospects to help the team build for the future.

What? The future for the Pirates should be right now!

Here you have a generational pitcher for the next few years and there is actually a solid starting staff around him.

All the Pirates needed to do was to add a couple bats in the offseason to give their pitchers a fighting chance.

But GM Ben Cherington did not...