2018 Pittsburgh Pirates In-Season Thread

Postby **MrKennethTKangaroo** » Wed Sep 12, 2018 10:07 pm

Why did rivero pitch two innings?

Postby **willeyeam** » Wed Sep 12, 2018 10:55 pm

Why did rivero pitch two innings?

This was a big game

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 7:29 am

Could have used that a little earlier in the season Hurdle.

Postby **MrKennethTKangaroo** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 8:59 am

worried about overusing kela but not worried about using rivero too much

got it

Postby **Troy Loney** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 2:23 pm

Polanco has taken himself out of half of next year apparently.

What a dolt.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 2:25 pm

Baseball players are a bunch of jokes.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 2:30 pm

Jesus Christ. I just saw the slide that he destroyed half his body on. What a god damn moron.

Postby **Troy Loney** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 2:31 pm

It was more a failed attempt to do a backflip than a slide.

Postby **Morkle** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 2:38 pm

Didn't someone here call him a baby giraffe? Dude is a clown.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 2:43 pm

I can't stop watching it. It's the worst slide I've ever seen.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 6:52 pm

Polanco has taken himself out of half of next year apparently.

What a dolt.

That video is aggravating. What an avoidable, idiotic injury.

Postby **slappybrown** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:12 pm

Polanco is certainly not a good baserunner, but when you're third base coach is waving you home, you go. If it was Mercer getting thrown out everyone would be moaning about Cora
is it me or is polanco just outright slow. he runs like a robot built with mismatched parts, its all segments of his body moving in an uncoordinated fashion
Newborn giraffe.

Good posts by us in April imo

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:13 pm

So basically we'll have to play for 20 20 next year

Postby **slappybrown** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:14 pm

Labrum issues are awful

This is not good

Postby **count2infinity** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 8:48 pm

Archer sucks...

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 8:48 pm

Cervelli went out to the mound to visit Archer. Quick, animated hand gestures. But after an out, Shaw homers and it's 3-0.

https://mobile.twitter.com/BrinkPG/stat ... 7584779265

Postby **NailedPenguin** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:10 pm

Have a feeling Archer's going to get the Kris Letang treatment from the media where they just keep saying he's going to turn it around and have a big week/month/year, and keep saying it over and over and over waiting for it to happen.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:34 pm

Archer sucks...

He has a team friendly contract though!

Postby **willeyeam** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 11:26 pm

Just wait till y'all see Arcia's bunt double. It's something I've wanted to try in softball but never really thought you could pull it off in the majors with 90 feet bases. It hurt

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 10:06 am

Back to five hundo.

Williams (13-9) was four-seam heavy, throwing it 53 times out of his 97 pitches. While he only got two whiffs with the pitch, the Brewers went 0-10 with two walks and a sacrifice bunt in plate appearances that ended with a four-seamer.

He ended the day allowing two hits and two walks while striking out seven. It is the third time out of his last four starts where he struck out at least a half dozen batters.

It’s the ninth time this season Williams has had a shoutout start of at least six IP- the most in baseball.

Please just let Williams actually be good and I promise to have a shred of optimism for next season.

Postby **Troy Loney** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 10:18 am

Nova is actually looking like a guy they should keep around next year.

Postby **willeyeam** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 10:26 am

Nova is actually looking like a guy they should keep around next year.

This is something I've been thinking about. We damn near relied on him to be our ace going into the last year or two. He will be just fine as the 4th or 5th guy in the rotation. Taillon-Williams-Musgrove-Archer-Nova with Kuhl and Keller hopefully on the doorstep ain't half bad. Spend some money (ha) on an OF to fill in for Polanco and give us a legit bench bat when he's back and sign some infield help, this team would be pretty decent

Postby **Troy Loney** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 10:40 am

Nova is actually looking like a guy they should keep around next year.
This is something I've been thinking about. We damn near relied on him to be our ace going into the last year or two. He will be just fine as the 4th or 5th guy in the rotation. Taillon-Williams-Musgrove-Archer-Nova with Kuhl and Keller hopefully on the doorstep ain't half bad. Spend some money (ha) on an OF to fill in for Polanco and give us a legit bench bat when he's back and sign some infield help, this team would be pretty decent

I actually think with Nova looking like a keeper, they could maybe try to move one of Williams or Musgrove in the offseason for an upgrade elsewhere. Keller should be a rotation mainstay by the middle of next year, so opening the 5th spot to start the year to Brubaker, Kingham or Holmes would be doable, and worst case scenario, they go in to 2020 with a rotation or Taillon, Archer, Keller and one of Williams/Musgrove and have to find the #5 guy. And when you're playing 7 inning games with a strong back end of the bullpen, you can get by with a weaker bottom of the rotation. Plus with Taillon, Williams and Musgrove all entering arbitration after next year, they might want to sell high on one of those guys this offseason.

With Polanco going down, they will need another OF'er. They already have to upgrade the IF, they are going to have to do something because doing nothing is rubber stamping a low ceiling team for next year.

Postby **willeyeam** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:05 am

I don't like trading a starter right now because I'm not ready to say anyone besides Taillon is a sure thing to be pretty good. So if you trade Williams and Musgrove busts, you're looking at a very thin rotation all of a sudden.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:13 am

I'll be stunned if Keller sees Pittsburgh before September 2019.