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Contract Talks Between Pirates and Gregory Polanco Have Been Put on Hold

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Jon Heyman is reporting that contract talks between the Pittsburgh Pirates and outfielder Gregory Polanco have broken down and the two sides won’t discuss a contract extension until the off-season. As Heyman mentioned, this is the second time the two sides have discussed a long-term deal, but apparently the Pirates came up with a bigger offer this time. The talks ended with the main difference between the two sides being the salaries during the option years on the deal. Also of note from Heyman, he mentions that the contract would have been the biggest one given to a player with less than a year of service time.

Last week when word of the extension talks came out, we posted about the potential market value of a deal for Polanco, comparing it to the deals that Starling Marte and Christian Yelich signed, while also pointing out that Polanco hasn’t had a breakout season yet.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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