2015 Pittsburgh Pirates Thread

Postby **schreibdog** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 5:59 pm

And AJ Burnett to the DL with right elbow inflammation. Buccos called up Bobby LaFromboise.
I guess that's why they got Happ now. This rotation is getting quite top-heavy. Cole, Liriano, then pray for 3 days of rain?

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 6:01 pm

Morse sucks and is batting .091 against lefties this year. Nice platoon.

AJ is going to be replaced in the rotation by someone worse than Vance Worley. Stupid.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 6:03 pm

https://twitter.com/pirateprospects/sta ... 9897398272

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 6:04 pm

Morse sucks and is batting .091 against lefties this year. Nice platoon.

AJ is going to be replaced in the rotation by someone worse than Vance Worley. Stupid.

Morse only has 22 at-bats against LHP this year. He is a .274 hitter lifetime.

Postby **columbia** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 6:06 pm

At least they didn't trade for Lovejoy.

Postby **Faubert5** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 6:36 pm

Dude we have the 2nd best record in the NL and 3rd or 4th best in the whole league.

That would mean a lot more if AJ hadn't melted down. This squad could still win it all and did get a little stronger at the deadline but I don't think we have the depth of pitching to take it all.

Postby **columbia** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 6:40 pm

Watch it; the mullahs might come down on you.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 6:49 pm

Morse sucks and is batting .091 against lefties this year. Nice platoon.

AJ is going to be replaced in the rotation by someone worse than Vance Worley. Stupid.
Morse only has 22 at-bats against LHP this year. He is a .274 hitter lifetime.

So what? The guy he lost the 1B job to midseason bats left-handed and only has 22 at-bats against LHPs as well. Either the Marlins never face lefties or Morse is so bad anymore that they didn't even bother platooning him at first. On top of that, Pedro only has 35 at-bats against LHP this year and is batting .222 against them. While they are all sample sizes, the basic picture is that Michael Morse and his four homeruns and almost zero playing time against lefties sucks and is probably no longer good at baseball and is a crappy option to platoon with Pedro. Would have rather seen Mike Napoli.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 6:52 pm

Morse was on the DL earlier this season.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 7:03 pm

Again, that matters how?

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 7:04 pm

He lost the job because he was on the DL.

Postby **Faubert5** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 7:16 pm

An unconventional first and second no one out.

Postby **Faubert5** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 7:17 pm

Cutch almost came out of his shoes on that last swing.

Postby **Faubert5** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 7:19 pm

Unfortunate bounce cost Jung an RBI but I'll take it.

Postby **Faubert5** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 7:32 pm

I think Pedro has another dinger this evening. Get it done El Toro.

Postby **Faubert5** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 7:52 pm

Spahn and Sain and pray for rain.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 7:53 pm

Locke to DL

Postby **Faubert5** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 7:54 pm

And Davy Johnson's illegitimate beanpole son scores to make it 3-1.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 8:00 pm

He lost the job because he was on the DL.

And didn't get it back because he sucks. His pick up is of zero benefit to the Pirates. Happ is a downgrade from what they already had. They're down to 2/5ths of an effective starting rotation. Today was a set back for this team.

Postby **Faubert5** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 8:02 pm

Wow, BS call there.

Postby **Faubert5** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 8:03 pm

He lost the job because he was on the DL.
And didn't get it back because he sucks. His pick up is of zero benefit to the Pirates. Happ is a downgrade from what they already had. They're down to 2/5ths of an effective starting rotation. Today was a set back for this team.

Didn't exactly trade like they were trying to tell the locker room that they can win this year.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 8:05 pm

He lost the job because he was on the DL.
And didn't get it back because he sucks. His pick up is of zero benefit to the Pirates. Happ is a downgrade from what they already had. They're down to 2/5ths of an effective starting rotation. Today was a set back for this team.
Didn't exactly trade like they were trying to tell the locker room that they can win this year.

In my opinion, it's only a matter of time before Cutch gets fed up with the team being more worried about next year than this.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 8:16 pm

https://twitter.com/stephenjnesbitt/sta ... 4147429376

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 8:33 pm

#CutchHappens

Postby **PFiDC** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 9:06 pm

Why waive him home?