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Pirates Have High Price For Neil Walker

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The Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles had trade talks involving Neil Walker at the GM meetings last week according to Rob Biertempfel. He reports that the talks quickly broke down due to the high asking price from the Pirates. Since it is early in the off-season, there shouldn’t be any rush to move Walker, so a high initial asking price is no surprise. He has one year left before hitting free agency and he is projected to make $10.7M through arbitration this winter. Walker hit .269/.328/.427 in 151 games this season

Earlier in the day, Neal Huntington commented that the recovery of Jung Ho Kang won’t impact what they do with Neil Walker this off-season. It’s still early in his recovery process, but Kang is expected back sometime after Opening Day, though the best case scenario would have him ready close to the opener.

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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