Perrotto: Hard to Catch on to Ben Cherington’s Thinking (+)

Ben Cherington says he is not one and done when it comes to making moves to bolster the Pittsburgh Pirates’ pop gun offense this winter.

That’s a good thing.

While trading for the Tampa Bay Rays for first baseman Ji-Man Choi was a good move for the Pirates general manager, he needs to do more. The 2022 Pirates were 27^th among the 30 major league teams in scoring with just 3.65 runs a game.

There were plenty of root problems for the lack of scoring. None more so than the Pirates’ .655 OPS, which was 28^th in the big leagues.