Each day this week we'll take a look at what another team in the NL Central team did this winter. We start today with the Pirates:
12-5-08: Signed Daniel Haigwood to a minor league deal with invite to Spring Training.
12-8-08: Signed Brian Slocum to a minor league deal with a invite to Spring Training. .
12-10-08: Traded Ronny Paulino to the Phillies in exchance for Jason Jaramillo.
12-11-08: Selected Donald Veal from the Cubs in the Rule 5 Draft.
12-12-08: Signed Denny Bautista to a minor league deal
12-19-08: Denny Baustista to a minor league deal with invite to Spring Training.
12-22-08: Signed Garrett Jones, Juan Mateo, Andy Philips, and Jeff Salazar to minor league deals with invites to Spring Training.
1-6-09: Signed Pedro Lopez and Anderson Marchado to minor league deals with invites to Spring Training.
1-13-09: Signed Craig Monroe to a minor league deal with invite to Spring Training.
1-21-09: Signed Erik Kratz to a minor league deal w/ invite to S.T.
1-26-09: Claimed Virgil Vasquez off waivers from the Padres.
1-30-09: Signed Eric Hinske to a one-year contract.
I'd give the Pirates off season a 5 out of 10. They didn't really do anything to improve, and lost Ronny Paulino.
The Caribbean World Series took place all last week in Mexico and was televised on the MLB Network. Venezuela won the series. Here is the final standings:
Venezuela 5-1
Mexico 3-3
Dominican Republic 2-4
Puerto Rico 2-4
The MLB Network did a great job with the games, at it was great to see some live baseball in early February. It also was a little preview of what we'll see in the World Baseball Classic next month.
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