One big domino left to fall

While perusing MLB Trade Rumors this morning, hoping to find anything interesting happening on the Pirate front to write about, I noticed that there are still an awful lot of first baseman on the free agent market. Presumably, guys like Casey Kotchman and Derrek Lee and Carlos Pena are all waiting for Prince Fielder to sign before picking a team in hopes that one of the desperate runners-up in the Fielder Derby will pay them a little more than they're being offered right now. Here's the thing, though: the Prince Fielder Derby isn't nearly as heated as Prince or Scott Boras had hoped. Right now, it seems like almost a slam dunk he's going to end up in Washington because they're the only team that really seems interested beyond a passing glance. So what if we hit mid-January and Lee, Pena, and Kotchman are still on the market and could be had for reasonable prices? The Pirates haven't been openly interested in any of them except for Lee and since they traded fo...