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Do Pirates Manipulate Service Time?

Service Time Manipulation is a dirty phrase. We break down the ways a team can control players, and wonder what the Pirates will do in 2021.

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Service Time Manipulation is a dirty phrase. One MLB team president lost his job for talking too much about it this week. Ben Cherington can't talk about it, but we can. We break down the different ways a team can control years and salary, while wondering how far the Pittsburgh Pirates will take it in 2021. (Ke'Bryan Hayes certainly knows the possibilities.) Plus, what do fantasy baseball projections tell about the Pirates?

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