2019-2020 Pittsburgh Pirates Off-Season Thread

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:32 am

The bullpen sucked ass last year and you don't need another year (or a lot of money) to figure out if it can be fixed.
Crick, Feliz, kela, and Richrod should all be decent. Kuhl and Santana are wild cards.

Just dont make me watch guys like Geoff Hartlieb accumulate a 9.00 ERA over 35 innings.
The bad news is that you named 6 guys, two of which are coming off tommy john surgery, two of which are kind of good (kela, crick maybe), Michael feliz craps himself when it is a remotely high leverage situation, and richrod, who I really don't know what to make of.

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Postby Troy Loney » Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:54 am

Kyle Crick also sucked last year. He's more of a wildcard than RichRod IMO.

Especially considering that the absence of Vazquez moves everyone up in the BP order. No 8th inning guy, Kela as a closer that can maybe be competent, Feliz likely starting the year in a high leverage role.

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Postby dodint » Fri Jan 24, 2020 12:37 pm

Was probably cheaper that way.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Fri Jan 24, 2020 3:21 pm

So they went from Blass, Walk, Wehner with Greg Brown/Joe Block to Young, Capps, McKenry, Wehner, Walk with Brown/Block.

That's too damn many analysts. I know it's a long season, but yikes. :lol:

Come to think of it, it's doubtful I'll watch many games this season anyway.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Fri Jan 24, 2020 3:25 pm


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Postby count2infinity » Fri Jan 24, 2020 3:27 pm

Honest question: Am I a terrible fan or are they very similar to past jerseys?

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Postby MR25 » Fri Jan 24, 2020 3:34 pm

I think they used the script greys in the 90s.

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Postby willeyeam » Fri Jan 24, 2020 4:16 pm

they had black pinstripes on them back then but close enough

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Postby skullman80 » Fri Jan 24, 2020 4:17 pm

Gotta do something to stay relevant when the team is so shitty. People will gobble them up too.

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Postby MR25 » Fri Jan 24, 2020 4:25 pm

they had black pinstripes on them back then but close enough
https://sports.ha.com/itm/baseball-coll ... 95-80474.s

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Postby willeyeam » Fri Jan 24, 2020 4:34 pm

Nice, didn't realize that. I was thinking of these puppies

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Postby shafnutz05 » Sat Jan 25, 2020 7:10 am

Gotta do something to stay relevant when the team is so shitty. People will gobble them up too.
Yup.

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Postby faftorial » Sat Jan 25, 2020 7:13 pm

There's a good article in the Post about how complex the signs used by Nationals pitching staff were for the WS. They won all four games there.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Sat Jan 25, 2020 7:37 pm

Another takeaway from that Stallings quote is that the players can't stomach the Pirates broadcast crew :lol:

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Postby faftorial » Sat Jan 25, 2020 8:03 pm

Another takeaway from that Stallings quote is that the players can't stomach the Pirates broadcast crew :lol:
I thought they were referring to opposing team's announcers.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Sat Jan 25, 2020 8:30 pm

Another takeaway from that Stallings quote is that the players can't stomach the Pirates broadcast crew :lol:
I thought they were referring to opposing team's announcers.
Exactly.

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Sat Jan 25, 2020 10:50 pm

I’m in the process of drinking a goose island bourbon county stout so I’m getting ornery. The pirates are going to suck this year and If Cherrington is genuine about this “well lets see if we can use a magic touch to make these guys not suck” approach, then f that guy. Colin Moran has 1000 plate appearances and a career war of 0.6. He isnt getting any better than that. As the esteemed slappy Brown has frequently said, what is the point of him? Even if he gets incrementally better, he will be upgraded from “replacement player, therefore has no value” to “maybe someone that wont be a complete detriment to a playoff contending team.” Even if he gets better, he will not fetch anything in a trade. Ditto with polanco.

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Postby willeyeam » Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:05 pm

You answered your own question. Nobody else wants Colin **** Moran either

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Postby King Colby » Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:14 am

Moran is about as hateable as it gets. He's got the electricity of a birthday candle. His blend of boring and suck perfectly matches his stupid face.

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Postby Troy Loney » Sun Jan 26, 2020 11:26 am

He’s a good pinch hitter, and he can be competent for extremely limited time periods as a starter. But the instant you think he’s more than that, he turtles, when tasked with any sort of reliance.

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Postby robbiestoupe » Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:49 pm

The pirates hate first basemen, starting pitchers and third basemen. What do you expect?

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Postby Troy Loney » Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:16 pm

Looks like Marte is about to get traded

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