The Pirates one is almost as good as the Reds. BucsDugout.com: Jack Wilson Like the Pirates themselves, Jack Wilson is consistent, unjustly well-compensated, and not nearly good enough. For fielding a 69-win team with a suspiciously small payroll in 2006, Major League Baseball rewarded the Pirates with $25 million in revenue-sharing; for fielding grounders and posting a .299 on-base percentage in 2005, the Pirates rewarded Wilson with a $20 million contract. By 2006 winning percentage, the Bucs were the fourth worst team in the big leagues; by 2006 OPS, Wilson was the majors' fourth worst regular shortstop. In any given year, the Pirates are mediocre at best, and yet the ownership appears to be satisfied with that; Wilson, meanwhile, is also mediocre at best, so maybe it's appropriate that the organization treats him like a star.