Osoria, Duffy get DFA, Bixler optioned

Well, not sure at all about how good the trade was, but a DFA for Osoria is a step in the right direction.

No more Osoria, this is the brightest part of all the deals.

He was by far, my most disiiked Bucco ever. Even ahead of Pap Shmeares

First...GREAT job DK.  This was extremely enjoyable.

I like the DFAing of Osoria and Duffy.  Bixler going down makes sense too.

NH has picked up the following players:

-Jason Michaels

-Dougie M

-Jason Davis

-TJ Beam

-Evan Meek (check out his performance in AAA)

-Ross Ohlendorf

-Dan McCutchen

-Jeff Kastens

-Jose Tabata

-Andy LaRoche

-Bryan Morris

-Craig Hansen

-Damien Moss

All for $$$$, Nady, Marte and Bay.

Wow...

Thank God.....one more game of Osoria & I was going to punch my TV......I doubt anyone will pick up Duffy, if so, good luck.  I was at the Game in NYC when he hit the inside-the-park HR, and I was amazed he didn't have a mental breakdown/get hurt while running the bases....

I'll bet you any of you a cup of soup that Atlanta picks up Duffy

Agree Cecil...I think Duffy gets picked up...wouldn't be surprised to see him make it with another team.  I think he has a lot of talent (not that it converted into sucess here).  Shame to lose him.

Duffy will end up going to Atlanta if they want him. Supposedly they've liked him for a while.

Osoria will get picked up by some other team too looking for middle relief...hoping for lightning in a bottle.

I've always been a backer of Duffy. No one can ever accuse him of not hustling, something always looked upon favorably by Pittsburgh sports fans. Sad to say, it never seemed to be in the cards for him to succeed with the PBC. Like a lot of players, he's surely going to be better off starting fresh somewhere else. I agree with the other posters: someone will pick him up from waivers.

hate to lose duffy...i hope no one picks him up but i find that highly unlikely

Given that multiple teams have shown interest in Duffy in the past, isn't it possible that they could trade him?   I'm not sure how the waivers work but if someone claims him, could they not pull him back and attempt to make a trade prior to just letting him go?  No way he brings more than a very marginal prospect at this point, but someone with even a 5-10% shot at doing something in the future would be better than nothing.  

Wiz,

    I was wondering the same thing - about trading Duffy rather than waivers. With 10 days to act, I'm sure NH might have his spies check for possible interest in Chris. But DK indicates the Bucs want to keep him, thus the waivers. As for Osoria, let him go. Addition by subtraction.

I always liked Duffy too. He will get picked up by someone, remember the Marlins as well as the Braves were also interested in him at one time.

While I'm not too concerned about losing Duffy, after thinking about, if they had to clear space on the 40-man roster, why not DFA Van Benschoten?  Even if there are those in the organization that hold out hope that he can still pitch in the majors (delusional thinking, in my mind), given how he has pitched, there is NO way anyone would claim him.  Given that Duffy will fairly certainly be claimed, I'm thinking this was a bad move which will result in losing a player we didn't have to lose (at least not now).

Duffy should get picked up, but I've got no problem with the DFA.  He's lost another year of development with yet another injury and ailment.  To all you Osoria haters, I can only say that he was a feast or famine guy.  There were stretches where he won them games and wretched stretches where he lost 'em.  The inconsistency was horribly frustrating.  I would not be surprised if someone grabs him up, too. It's not like he costs anything.  But, as stated earlier, he was certainly not the most hated Bucco ever. See "Operation Shutdown."

Don't forget how good Duffy was before Tracy made him change his swing. It was like in Major League 2 when Lou Brown made Willie Mays Hays do push ups for everytime he hit a fly ball

Him being hurt might be the only way he stays on the Buccos

I'd rather we had DFA'd Ronald Belisario or David Davidson instead of Duffy.  

I agree with the others that Duffy was seriously screwed up by Jim Tracy.

It's a bright new day for the Pirates when they DFA a player to make roster room and other teams are actually pondering whether to pick him up.  Sign of the new times, and I'm pretty happy that we now have (closer to)the depth in the organization where we have to think a little bit about whether or not another team wants our scraps.

Thanks Neal, good luck with the plan.  I'm optimistic you are on the right track.

I agree with CecilEspy.  Duffy was lightning.  Tracy just shook his bottle too hard.  I never hated Tracy but I could never figure out what he had against lead-off triples.  Why didn't they just have him focus on perfecting a bunt instead of trying to change a positive.  He'll be picked up because you can't teach speed and Duffy is still a defensive marvel when healthy.  I'll be sad.

This is the baseball equivalent of getting the sack, for Osoria and Duffy and Luis Munoz and Bullington. For all the talk about "we waive them but want to keep them" they surely know that somebody will take bottom feeders - and then get rid of them too. What this says to me is that the accountability thing wasn't hot air after all. U smell, U gone. Simple as that. (That may be being a little hard on Duffy, but anyone who's that accident-prone maybe needs to find another line of work anyhow.) Bravo, Scout - I do believe you and the Prez know what you're doing. Not so sure about Russell - but let's see what he does with a new deck of cards. Looks like they're already thinking about Eyechart in a managerial capacity down the road - that could turn out to be the next Murtaugh (well, stranger things have happened).

ts, good point on duffys D. I still remember a game against Houston three years ago when we were getting blown out by Houston. Duffy laid out and made a diving catch and also gunned someone out at home with his cannon. Best CF play I've seen since Andy Van Slyke.

ts and CecilEspy -

    Imagine if we had not fired Jim Tracey and the havoc he'd be creating this year trying to turn McLouth into a "hit the ball hard into the ground" leadoff type.

What's the likely roster move when Adam LaRoche returns from the DL?  

Does Jose Bautista have options remaining?

G-Man - I want to laugh and cry at the same time when i think about that .  He would have repopulated the farm system by breaking all of our call ups and sending them back to 'work out their problems'.  Eventually we could have had an entire system of squandered talent trying to hit the ball in the dirt and leg it out!

I hate the fact they DFA'd Duffy.  Jon Van Benschoten should have been DFA.  No one will pick up a pitcher that can't get anyone out.  He would have cleared.  If not, who cares?  Duffy is as good as gone.  Atlanta most likely, if not probably Florida.  I don't get why they they keep giving VanBenschoten chances.

Eh, good riddance on Chris Duffy. I'm not, for a second, gonna miss his .689 OPS and 6 homeruns.