That doesn't mean, though, that we can't speculate what it would take for the Red Sox to pull off a deal that the Pirates would accept. If one American League executive's estimate

With the team's extreme struggles, the Pirates could be expected to become sellers at this year's trade deadline. Bleacher Report 's Tim Kelly is predicting Tommy Pham, Dennis Santana, Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Joey Bart are Pirates players he can see the team moving this summer. Skenes, for him, is not.

Just over one year to the date that Paul Skenes made his MLB debut, the Pittsburgh Pirates already find themselves having to deflect trade talk involving the pitching phenom.