His team stuck on the fringe of the playoff race - not quite in it and not quite out of it - Pittsburgh Pirates general manager Neal Huntington spent the hours leading up to the trade deadline weighing both blowing up his roster and moving on to 2018 and making a splash in an effort to make inroads on the Chicago Cubs. In the end, Huntington did neither, a testament to both a somewhat tepid market and Huntington's belief that the Pirates aren't quite ready to bail on 2017. Pittsburgh sent reliever Tony Watson to the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for a pair of prospects and acquired reliever Joaquin Benoit from Philadelphia but otherwise stood pat.