Cota gets a contract

The deadline to offer contracts to arbitration eligible players was about a half hour ago and the Pirates tendered everyone, Shawn Chacon and Humberto Cota included. Chacon is understandable, pitching is expensive on this market and he is not. Cota is unexplainable. The only reason Humberto Cota would get a contract from this team is... well, there's no good reason. Paulino and Doumit are both much better and more valuable players. Maldanado can be signed to a minor league contract and kept in Indy for an emergency. This is stupid.