Pirates Offseason Thread 2022-23

Postby **willeyeam** » Wed Jan 25, 2023 10:31 am

we don't even have 5 SP how are we gonna trot 6 out there

Postby **willeyeam** » Wed Jan 25, 2023 10:31 am

btw Bae was assigned #3 - indication he might be with the big club this year?

and Endy got #25 - eyes emoji

Postby **robbiestoupe** » Wed Jan 25, 2023 10:34 am

we don't even have 5 SP how are we gonna trot 6 out there

It's like having 2 starting quarterbacks. You really have none.

Postby **Troy Loney** » Wed Jan 25, 2023 10:39 am

btw Bae was assigned #3 - indication he might be with the big club this year?

and Endy got #25 - eyes emoji

As of now, Endy is the only other catcher on the 40-man. I don't think there's any way he's in AAA more than a month to ensure another 6 years of control

Postby **willeyeam** » Thu Jan 26, 2023 12:27 pm

Postby **Troy Loney** » Thu Jan 26, 2023 12:38 pm

“Gambling”

That is good news though. Probably a 100% chance he knocks swaggerty or vilade off the 40-man

Postby **King Colby** » Thu Jan 26, 2023 1:24 pm

I'm glad he stuck. Low risk, potential upside.

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Thu Jan 26, 2023 1:34 pm

So weird that the regular Pirates twitter doesn't mention his signing, but "Young Bucs" does.

Postby **willeyeam** » Fri Jan 27, 2023 3:17 pm

Postby **robbiestoupe** » Fri Jan 27, 2023 3:31 pm

Dr K or Dr E3?

But seriously, good on him

Postby **King Colby** » Fri Jan 27, 2023 8:58 pm

Potato, potahto

Postby **faftorial** » Fri Jan 27, 2023 9:02 pm

What was @Rocco's nickname for him?

El Fatso or something like that.

Postby **Sam's Drunk Dog** » Fri Jan 27, 2023 9:04 pm

There was the Daydro nickname because he had his best games during the day, but not sure if that was Rocco's nickname or not.

Postby **faftorial** » Fri Jan 27, 2023 9:14 pm

It was a play on El Toro.

El Tubby?

Postby **Rocco** » Sat Jan 28, 2023 9:50 pm

What was @Rocco's nickname for him?

El Fatso or something like that.

El Blimpo. He's now Dr. El Blimpo.

Postby **faftorial** » Sat Jan 28, 2023 10:09 pm

What was @Rocco's nickname for him?

El Fatso or something like that.
El Blimpo. He's now Dr. El Blimpo.

Postby **Troy Loney** » Mon Jan 30, 2023 10:16 am

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/diamond-spo ... enue-boat/

End of the local broadcasting boon is upon us.

Luckily I believe the Pirates' deal with AT&T is not directly impacted by this, but the funny money days that other teams (Pirates never got that bag) experienced is over.

Postby **Troy Loney** » Mon Jan 30, 2023 10:39 am

https://theathletic.com/4132943/2023/01 ... keith-law/

Keith Law's prospect list out today.

3 highly rated guys - Termarr, Davis and Endy.
1 mid - Priester
1 bottom 100 guy - Chandler

He describes really high floors for Endy and Priester, which is good news I think, I think both settle into MLB roles this season.
Not really sure what to make of Davis, and nice to see Chandler getting the nod. He is a guy that could just be a top prospect in baseball in a flash.

Will be curious to see where Gonzalez and Pegeuro trend this year, being left off of these lists is not a death knell, they will have to earn it going forward, which isn't a bad thing.

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Mon Jan 30, 2023 11:15 am

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/diamond-spo ... enue-boat/

End of the local broadcasting boon is upon us.

Luckily I believe the Pirates' deal with AT&T is not directly impacted by this, but the funny money days that other teams (Pirates never got that bag) experienced is over.

Travis Sawchik had an article/Tweetstorm about how regional sports networks are in decline because there are far fewer cable subscribers out there. Comcast announced they'd lost 11% of their cable TV subscribers in 2022 (!!!) Pretty good read: https://www.thescore.com/mlb/news/2556602

Postby **dodint** » Mon Jan 30, 2023 11:32 am

I was chatting about local sports nets with a friend today. The NHL/Pens would still rather try to get me to buy a cable package than take $10/month from me directly. The differences in the margin there are insane. And as it is they get $0 from me because I'm streaming the games instead of paying for a package that I'd happily pay for to support that broadcast.

The cheapest way I know of getting the Pens local sports net (I don't even know what it is, ATTSN maybe?) is $60 to Fubu on top of what I already pay for YoutubeTV.

Postby **Troy Loney** » Mon Jan 30, 2023 11:41 am

Also not surprising to see that there’s a leveraged buyout associated with this pending business failure.

Capitalism is a mess

Postby **iamjs** » Mon Jan 30, 2023 12:05 pm

There was the Daydro nickname because he had his best games during the day, but not sure if that was Rocco's nickname or not.

I thought it was K-dro.

Postby **Beveridge** » Mon Jan 30, 2023 2:13 pm

Who was El Blimpo then?

Postby **Troy Loney** » Mon Jan 30, 2023 2:16 pm

Alvarez is blimpo, there are 32 pages of search results for blimpo on the old board. lol

Postby **King Colby** » Mon Jan 30, 2023 2:35 pm

Will be curious to see where Gonzalez and Pegeuro trend this year, being left off of these lists is not a death knell, they will have to earn it going forward, which isn't a bad thing.

Recency bias