Is Bob Nutting the Biggest Spender in Baseball?

"You have to clear a certain winning bar before you can get into that like safe band of anonymity. Because otherwise you're a pop nutting," Ben says. "I don't know in this scenario whether he becomes the biggest spender, or whether he is just lavishing dollars on people who otherwise would not get them." 'This is just like being generous whatever would qualify as generosity for an MLB owner,' Ben adds. "'Bob Nutting' isn't what I think it's supposed to be,'" writes JJ Poynter at Baseball Prospectus. "[The Pirates] haven't won any games since 2008 and they've lost more than half their season-long Pythagorean goals

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