"Pirates left-handers Paul Maholm and Zach Duke have drawn considerable interest from other teams at the Winter Meetings.

"The value is high for quality starting pitchers," general manager Neal Huntington said Tuesday. "As more go off (the market), the value may go up. It's something we have to be open-minded about. We're not looking to move, but if we get a good baseball deal, we'll talk about it."

Huntington indicated there's no sense of urgency to trade a pitcher during this week's meetings.

"In fact, if we were smart about it, we'd probably wait and let most of the other options go off the board," he said. "Maybe we'd get (another team) that's willing to be that much more aggressive."

» The deadline to tender offers to arbitration-eligible players is Friday. Huntington was asked whether that would, in general, spark more trades."