PITTSBURGH — When the rumors started during the winter after the 2022 season of Andrew McCutchen coming back to the Pittsburgh Pirates, the city started buzzing again.
On Jan. 20, 2023, the Pirates finally got the deal done to bring McCutchen back to Pittsburgh.
Since then, McCutchen has registered 49 hits in ‘23 and is three hits away from 2,000 in his career. If/when McCutchen registers his 2,000th hit, he would become the 289th player in the major leagues to do so.
Prior to the Pirates’ game on Saturday against the St. Louis Cardinals, manager Derek Shelton spoke with the Pittsburgh media.
One of the many marvels with McCutchen has got to be his maintaining a high level of play, despite being 36 years old, and playing well over 1,900 games in his major league career.
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