Pittsburgh Pirates: Ranking the Team’s Best Trade Chips

After the July 30 MLB trade deadline passes the Pittsburgh Pirates roster will likely look much different. Who are the team’s best trade chips as the deadline approaches?

The 2021 MLB trade deadline is just slightly over a month away. Leading up to the July 30 trade deadline, the Pittsburgh Pirates will likely be one of the busiest teams in all of baseball. This is due to the Pirates being out of contention and having multiple quality trade chips.

As the trade deadline approaches there are few players on the Pirate roster who will be off limits in trade talks. Having a large contingency of players available will help general manager Ben Cherington as he continues to reload the Pirate farm system.

This list will not includes players who it would make no sense for the Pittsburgh Pirates to trade, but instead build around. This includes the likes of Ke’Bryan Hayes, Bryan Reynolds, JT Brubaker and David Bednar. All four of these players would carry a ton of value on the trade market, but the Pirates doing anything other than making these four players part of their core moving forward would be silly. Also, the odds of the Pittsburgh Pirates trading any of these players are about zero. Due to this, none of them cracked the list.