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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:01 am

Check out the google doodle for today.

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Postby robbiestoupe » Fri Oct 12, 2018 10:23 am

Check out the google doodle for today.
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Postby willeyeam » Fri Oct 12, 2018 10:34 am

that is great

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Postby willeyeam » Fri Oct 12, 2018 10:34 am

is this the pit of misery

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Postby MR25 » Fri Oct 12, 2018 10:52 am

Ji Hwan Bae found guilty of assaulting his ex girlfriend in SK.

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Postby willeyeam » Fri Oct 12, 2018 11:03 am

great

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Postby Troy Loney » Fri Oct 12, 2018 11:09 am

Time to stop signing South Korean players.

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Postby count2infinity » Fri Oct 12, 2018 11:17 am

is this the pit of misery despair
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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Fri Oct 12, 2018 11:19 am

Ji Hwan Bae found guilty of assaulting his ex girlfriend in SK.
is this a separate incident from the one earlier this year when he was going to get kicked out of america

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Postby MR25 » Fri Oct 12, 2018 11:25 am

Athletic article pre-paywall said this was from NYE 2017.

He was only fined the equivalent of about $1500

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Wed Oct 24, 2018 10:11 am

http://www.mlb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp ... pid=657061


Cole Tucker is having a good AFL.
His OPS his above 700? Dude's about to get popped for steroids.

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Wed Oct 24, 2018 10:25 am

dude is 22 but looks like he is like 53

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Postby LeopardLetang » Wed Oct 24, 2018 10:30 am

like his bb/k. just have to adjust his launch angle...

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Postby LeopardLetang » Wed Oct 24, 2018 11:29 pm

Random thoughts

I always thought Cole would be better but that I'd love Taillon more. Look for him to start strong and be an allstar. The full pitching staff is pretty strong. Williams could cement himself as a number 2 with another great year.

It would be so helpful to be a good defensive team. And man I wish we were smarter and could run the bases well.

I think marte could have a career year. And who knows maybe offensively bell and polanco. It's a pretty exciting team with chances to be great. I worry there could be a big dropoff in catcher production. Doubt diaz's bat is real.

Lots of older AAA guys that have maybe their last chance to break into the show. Im rooting hard for luplow or osuna especially the former. Or Kramer. I have a feeling we should keep lavarnway. I'd bank on his bat over Diaz

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Thu Oct 25, 2018 8:37 am

I'm hoping that lulow and osuna are spending a lot of time working on launch angle or something. they have raw power but haven't shown enough in the chances they have gotten thus far

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Postby Troy Loney » Thu Oct 25, 2018 10:39 am

So the issue with 2018 was that they entered the year with a substantial question marks on pitching, defense and hitting. They answered basically all the pitching questions for this upcoming year, but the offense and defense are both highly questionable. Polanco's injury created another question mark, so it seems like 2019 is another bridge year because it's not unlikely that they have to pull the plug on Bell and Moran. Dickerson, Marte and Cervelli can all handle full time duty, but those three and whatver Frazier is, is not going to be a competitive lineup. So at this point you are having to count on Bell and Moran being more than just competent enough to handle full time work.

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Thu Oct 25, 2018 10:50 am

i have faith in bell

moran? NOPE

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Fri Oct 26, 2018 8:10 am

ICYMI: Corey Dickerson was named a Gold Glove Award finalist on Thursday
https://mobile.twitter.com/rumbunter/st ... 2677437440

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Postby willeyeam » Fri Oct 26, 2018 9:09 am

The Gold Glove is the dumbest award there is. I like Corey but he's probably not even a top ten fielder

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Fri Oct 26, 2018 9:29 pm

Pirates drafted Walker Buehler in 2012 out of high school, but he went to Vanderbilt. Pirates passed on him in 1st round in 2015 to take Kevin Newman.
https://mobile.twitter.com/esh714/statu ... 2640770048

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Wed Oct 31, 2018 12:22 pm

https://triblive.com/sports/pirates/142 ... to-pirates

interesting development if true. while I am certainly not surprised they don't want anything to do with a $5 million (the horror) option, this infield stinks.

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Wed Oct 31, 2018 12:27 pm

Mercer was paid $6.75 million last year. ANYONE at $5.5 million should be considered a steal. **** this team already.

Per Perrotto:
"The Pirates, though, would bring him back only if he is willing to sign a minor league contract with the opportunity to make the team in spring training. Any deal would almost certainly include a low base salary and be heavy on performance bonuses."
CHEAP. AS. ****.
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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Wed Oct 31, 2018 12:28 pm

I get why the pirates don't drop $20 million per year for a good starting pitcher or whatever. but declining a $5 million option for a guy that has a reasonable chance of meeting or exceeding the $5 million value is nickel and dimer sht

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Postby willeyeam » Wed Oct 31, 2018 12:48 pm

i will withhold comment until i read confirmation that the option was actually declined

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