The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

willeyeam
Posts: 39523
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 12:49 pm
Location: hodgepodge of nothingness

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby willeyeam » Wed Sep 15, 2021 3:26 pm

There is a subset of those pitchers. They pitch in high school, and then scouts recruit and draft everyone that throws harder

LeopardLetang
Posts: 2531
Joined: Sat Mar 28, 2015 1:27 pm

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby LeopardLetang » Wed Sep 15, 2021 4:13 pm

Yup. They say percentage wise it's smarter to recruit the toolsy big dudes. Which causes less smart crafty pitchers/players to get to the bigs and succeed. Which reaffirms to the scouts that they should only recruit the big toolsy dudes. I can't blame them really though.

willeyeam
Posts: 39523
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 12:49 pm
Location: hodgepodge of nothingness

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby willeyeam » Wed Sep 15, 2021 10:08 pm

I love ruining the Reds season

Troy Loney
Posts: 27461
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 3:03 pm

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby Troy Loney » Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:56 am

I love ruining the Reds season
Especially satisfying because the smart baseball people were all anointing the reds the 2nd WC slot because they had so many games remaining against the Pirates, how that was going to spoil the Padres, but actually the Pirates beating up on the Reds is going to give the spot to the cardinals lol.

MrKennethTKangaroo
Posts: 12368
Joined: Sat Mar 28, 2015 3:50 pm

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:05 am

While I was waiting for coffee to brew this morning, I decided I don't want the pirates to spend even a pittance on a free agent to fill the gap in the outfield with an actual Ben Gamel esque major leaguer. IMO alford and Yoshi have played well enough to play themselves out of the major leagues once and for all. Alford's strikeout rate is amazing (41% of ab's since he returned to the majors on August 7 have resulted in a strikeout), and his walk rate is hilarious (2 in 71 AB's since the return), but his ops is almost .800. so he has played well enough to earn a spot until Tswag comes up and delivers the goods (and by goods, I mean shows that he is not a major league contributor)

Troy Loney
Posts: 27461
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 3:03 pm

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby Troy Loney » Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:19 am

While I was waiting for coffee to brew this morning, I decided I don't want the pirates to spend even a pittance on a free agent to fill the gap in the outfield with an actual Ben Gamel esque major leaguer. IMO alford and Yoshi have played well enough to play themselves out of the major leagues once and for all. Alford's strikeout rate is amazing (41% of ab's since he returned to the majors on August 7 have resulted in a strikeout), and his walk rate is hilarious (2 in 71 AB's since the return), but his ops is almost .800. so he has played well enough to earn a spot until Tswag comes up and delivers the goods (and by goods, I mean shows that he is not a major league contributor)
Alford seems like the definition of a quad A guy. Which means, the next org he goes to is when he figures something out to become a regular.

Tswag had some crazy shoulder injury no? like one that's going to make his return for the start of 2022 questionable?

I have not seen one of Yoshi's 76 PAs this year. But it seems like he got the part with this audition.

willeyeam
Posts: 39523
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 12:49 pm
Location: hodgepodge of nothingness

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby willeyeam » Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:25 am

Yoshi has earned a spot imo. Alford, ehh. I think we all know what that K% and BB% is eventually going to lead to, regardless of what the OPS is right now

MrKennethTKangaroo
Posts: 12368
Joined: Sat Mar 28, 2015 3:50 pm

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:47 am

While I was waiting for coffee to brew this morning, I decided I don't want the pirates to spend even a pittance on a free agent to fill the gap in the outfield with an actual Ben Gamel esque major leaguer. IMO alford and Yoshi have played well enough to play themselves out of the major leagues once and for all. Alford's strikeout rate is amazing (41% of ab's since he returned to the majors on August 7 have resulted in a strikeout), and his walk rate is hilarious (2 in 71 AB's since the return), but his ops is almost .800. so he has played well enough to earn a spot until Tswag comes up and delivers the goods (and by goods, I mean shows that he is not a major league contributor)
Alford seems like the definition of a quad A guy. Which means, the next org he goes to is when he figures something out to become a regular.

Tswag had some crazy shoulder injury no? like one that's going to make his return for the start of 2022 questionable?

I have not seen one of Yoshi's 76 PAs this year. But it seems like he got the part with this audition.
Plenty of reasons to question TSwag. I haven't really paid attention to him because of a. the injury b. most people wrote him off as a prospect a while back and c. he is just an extension of the GMNH strategy of drafting y guys with no power like Cole Tucker, Newman, Kramer, Craig, etc. He's only had one full season of minor league baseball since he was drafted, and that was way back in 2019. Kind of sucks for him that there was no 2020 season and his 2021 season was ruined by this injury.

Yoshi and Alford have a lot in common in the sense that when they make contact, it is really, really good contact. None of this bullsht opposite field ground balls between third and short stuff we see from colin moran.

willeyeam
Posts: 39523
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 12:49 pm
Location: hodgepodge of nothingness

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby willeyeam » Thu Sep 16, 2021 11:21 am


Troy Loney
Posts: 27461
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 3:03 pm

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby Troy Loney » Thu Sep 16, 2021 12:52 pm

Who the hell is Connor Overton?

willeyeam
Posts: 39523
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 12:49 pm
Location: hodgepodge of nothingness

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby willeyeam » Thu Sep 16, 2021 1:17 pm

Who the hell is Connor Overton?
This is one of those posts that happen to a 60 win team in September. The only issue is we were also making these posts in April and May

skullman80
Posts: 19144
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 5:02 pm
Location: Monroeville, PA

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby skullman80 » Thu Sep 16, 2021 1:44 pm

They can at least avoid a 100 loss season with their mini recent surge I guess....

Sam's Drunk Dog
Posts: 6696
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:10 pm
Location: Less Coronavirus; More Donnie Iris
Contact:

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby Sam's Drunk Dog » Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:53 pm

I hope they lose every game the rest of the season. Get the best draft pick as possible at this point.

robbiestoupe
Posts: 11543
Joined: Thu Apr 30, 2015 3:27 pm

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby robbiestoupe » Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:25 am

I hope they lose every game the rest of the season. Get the best draft pick as possible at this point.
They aren't getting 1 or 2. They'll get 3 or 4. Currently with the same record as the Rangers.

DigitalGypsy66
Posts: 19632
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:33 pm
Location: Iodine State

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Fri Sep 17, 2021 11:30 am


robbiestoupe
Posts: 11543
Joined: Thu Apr 30, 2015 3:27 pm

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby robbiestoupe » Fri Sep 17, 2021 11:42 am

:lol:

Code: Select all

Year Age AgeDif Tm Lg Lev Aff W L W-L% ERA RA9 G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 SO/W 2021 29 4.3 Reading AANE AA PHI 0 1 .000 5.84 5.84 8 6 0 0 0 0 24.2 28 16 16 4 15 0 24 4 0 1 115 1.743 10.2 1.5 5.5 8.8 1.60

Troy Loney
Posts: 27461
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 3:03 pm

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby Troy Loney » Sun Sep 19, 2021 10:30 am

Baz getting called up by the rays.

Meadows flattening out as a middle of the pack corner outfielder, and glasnow going to have to learn how to pitch without cheating…so, we need this now to remember again how bad the trade was

Dickie Dunn
Posts: 28069
Joined: Thu Mar 26, 2015 12:12 pm
Location: Methuselah Honeysuckle

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby Dickie Dunn » Sun Sep 19, 2021 10:43 am

Meadows’ stats are super weird. He’s fully embraced the three true outcomes to an underwhelming slashline but close to 30 HRs and over 100 RBI.

Troy Loney
Posts: 27461
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 3:03 pm

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby Troy Loney » Sun Sep 19, 2021 10:50 am

Meadows’ stats are super weird. He’s fully embraced the three true outcomes to an underwhelming slashline but close to 30 HRs and over 100 RBI.
He seems to play in some sort of platoon down there.

willeyeam
Posts: 39523
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 12:49 pm
Location: hodgepodge of nothingness

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby willeyeam » Sun Sep 19, 2021 10:51 am

Why do they keep winning

Troy Loney
Posts: 27461
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 3:03 pm

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby Troy Loney » Sun Sep 19, 2021 10:52 am

Jordan luplow

King Colby
Posts: 17784
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:35 pm

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby King Colby » Sun Sep 19, 2021 11:25 am

Nice thread, but screw him

Troy Loney
Posts: 27461
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 3:03 pm

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby Troy Loney » Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:38 am



Looks like he modeled his delivery after Chris sale
Last edited by Troy Loney on Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:40 am, edited 1 time in total.

willeyeam
Posts: 39523
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 12:49 pm
Location: hodgepodge of nothingness

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby willeyeam » Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:40 am

Nasty. Seems effortless, then the ball is just there. Deceptive velocity

Troy Loney
Posts: 27461
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 3:03 pm

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

Postby Troy Loney » Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:42 am

Scratch that, looks like sale tightened his motion up, this dude looks way more loose

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Kaiser and 44 guests