Your 2022 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Thread

Postby **LeopardLetang** » Fri Oct 07, 2022 9:02 pm

Fangraphs just put Ortiz as number 50 in their top 100 prospects. And Endy at 33 over Davis at 36

Johnson 28
Priester 88
Peguero 89
Gonzalez 101

Postby **Troy Loney** » Sat Oct 08, 2022 8:25 am

Fangraphs just put Ortiz as number 50 in their top 100 prospects. And Endy at 33 over Davis at 36

Johnson 28
Priester 88
Peguero 89
Gonzalez 101

That’s a jump, he was around 20 going into the season, so he was on the radar after 2021, but then just took a massive leap this year.

Also should note that this isn’t a full update because Matt Frazier is still a top 10 pirate prospect. His flop will likely move him down considerably.

Postby **King Colby** » Sat Oct 08, 2022 10:36 am

Why is priesters stock down? 88 is kinda wack

Postby **LeopardLetang** » Sat Oct 08, 2022 10:41 am

that's what i thought. are we going to start talking about Ortiz instead of priester and burrows? i mean if so that's awesome for the buccos. priester isn't dominating in the k/9 area so i'm fine with his stock slipping in this kind of ranking since i'm still very high on him. but if ortiz really is this good now what a boon to the org. and it can completely change how people feel about the year's results for the system

Postby **willeyeam** » Sat Oct 08, 2022 10:42 am

Yeah if Ortiz is actually legit and we have a top 50 guy knocking on the door with Priester and Burrows I feel pretty good. I'll need to see some more to really believe that though

Postby **iamjs** » Sat Oct 08, 2022 7:48 pm

Postby **King Colby** » Sun Oct 09, 2022 1:00 am

Postby **MrKennethTKangaroo** » Mon Oct 10, 2022 7:51 pm

Reminder: bad baseball is better than no baseball

Postby **LeopardLetang** » Mon Oct 10, 2022 8:31 pm

I'm just spending time at baseball savant looking at pirates sprint speeds and throwing velocity etc. Chavis was weirdly fast. Hayes makes hay on dribblers in front of him. Suwinski was fast, hit hard and has an arm. Hayes makes the most consistent hard contact but all on the ground. Maybe the no shift will help or better he'll tweak his swing.

Postby **willeyeam** » Tue Oct 11, 2022 11:40 am

Breaking news the pirates won games when the closer pitched

Postby **iamjs** » Tue Oct 11, 2022 12:37 pm

Lame

Considering that Davis still signed the kid's hat, I have zero problem with this.

I might feel differently if he snubbed the kid completely or wrote this on the hat. It's one thing to have a kid run up to a player and ask for his autograph, but having a kid show up with a sleeved ball with no idea who the player is isn't a good look to me.

If anything, his dad now has a 1 of 1 autograph from him.

Postby **willeyeam** » Tue Oct 11, 2022 12:40 pm

i see both sides. Adults using kids for autographs is super lame. but, when I was 6, did I know minor league players? probably not. Would my dad have said hey he's a good one, go ask him to sign your ball? probably.. doing something good for me the kid, not for himself, but I can see how it would seem that way. Guessing Davis might have seen this guy before maybe

Postby **NAN** » Fri Oct 14, 2022 8:57 am

https://triblive.com/sports/30-years-af ... e-fallout/

30 years ago today.

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Fri Oct 14, 2022 9:48 am

Nope. Not looking at that.

Postby **robbiestoupe** » Fri Oct 14, 2022 9:53 am

I read the story. Still stings today. But even if they won that game and the World Series, we'd still be at 30 years of ineptitude.

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:11 am

Imagine being a Pirates fan in the middle of Braves country in 1992. That sucked.

Postby **robbiestoupe** » Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:17 am

That tomahawk chop needs to be cancelled

Postby **Morkle** » Fri Oct 14, 2022 1:42 pm

Yawn. Double speak galore.

Postby **robbiestoupe** » Fri Oct 14, 2022 2:28 pm

I never trust/listen to what the GM or higher for the Pirates say anymore. It's all spin, BS, lying, whatever you want to call it. They're going to be cheap, and they're not going to seriously address 1B. Post that in a tweet, Mackey.

Postby **Troy Loney** » Fri Oct 14, 2022 2:55 pm

I mean, there's no reason at this point to even consider that this means they are going to pursue a meaningful upgrade. But I guess Cherington isn't going to be like, 'we're excited to see what players are left available to play 1B in February when the unsigned guys are just looking to latch on somewhere".

Postby **King Colby** » Fri Oct 14, 2022 7:49 pm

Whoever predicted Jesus Aguilar will be the winner

Postby **MrKennethTKangaroo** » Fri Oct 14, 2022 11:36 pm

We need a macro to replace any gmbc quote with a giant wanking motion gif

Postby **faftorial** » Sat Oct 15, 2022 12:09 am

We need a macro to replace any gmbc quote with a giant wanking motion gif

What we do to collect a paycheck.

Postby **faftorial** » Tue Oct 18, 2022 7:01 pm

Can you get one of these at PNC?