The Official 2017 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Season Thread

[MrKennethTKangaroo]

Tyler glasnow on the mound tonight

Braceyourself.meme

[Freddy Rumsen]

All teams in action on Opening Day as well.

Should just be the Reds

[DigitalGypsy66]

Is it terrible I still want to go to Spring Training next year? We went in 2016 and it was one of the best family vacays we've ever taken. It was really cool being that close to MLB players...watching a rehabbing Jung Ho Kang take grounders while his translator played first base more adequately than John Jaso...

[Troy Loney]

That's assuming Florida survives 2017 hurricane season.

[willeyeam]

Is it terrible I still want to go to Spring Training next year? We went in 2016 and it was one of the best family vacays we've ever taken. It was really cool being that close to MLB players...watching a rehabbing Jung Ho Kang take grounders while his translator played first base more adequately than John Jaso...

I've always wanted to go but unless I leave public accounting that is never going to happen.

[Troy Loney]

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-next ... rgh-again/

We can’t consider it a matter of fact that Glasnow is now on the right track, because wild pitchers always need to prove themselves at the highest level, and Glasnow has been a work in progress for years. Yet Glasnow, now, is the best that he’s been. At least anecdotally, Glasnow’s stuff has been playing up in the minors, and those pitches are made all the more fearsome by the knowledge that no other pitcher adds as much extra velocity through his extension. Glasnow throws hard, and, to the hitters, his pitches look harder. Now Glasnow has a better idea where the pitches are going. It’s the beginning of the leap he needed to make, and now he just needs to carry it into the National League.

If he does it, that’s it. That’s the arrival of Tyler Glasnow, possible future ace of the Pirates. Nothing is certain until the good pitches are actually pitched, and pitched to good hitters, but Glasnow has never before been more encouraging. Even a losing season in Pittsburgh might not be entirely lost.

[willeyeam]

he better make a couple good starts or else he's gonna spend the winter turning into a head case

[beerman]

Glasnow starts are about the only thing I'm interested in the rest of the way.

[Troy Loney]

Glasnow started 15 games for Indianapolis. I downloaded all the minor-league numbers and narrowed to pitchers, at any and all levels, who made at least 10 starts. Out of that entire player pool, Glasnow posted the highest strikeout rate, just a hair or two shy of 40%. Obviously, it’s great to know that Glasnow was leaving his opponents flummoxed. But even more encouraging is that Glasnow managed to throw some strikes again. He threw consistent strikes for the first time since he was promoted from Double-A in 2015.

This is also pretty nuts.

[robbiestoupe]

Yeah who has time to download minor league numbers?

[Troy Loney]

Yeah who has time to download minor league numbers?

presumably any/all staff writers at fangraphs.

[robbiestoupe]

Ah, wasn't sure if that was a quote from your original link (didn't click it) or from a Pirate blog.

[Dickie Dunn]

Glasnow started 15 games for Indianapolis. I downloaded all the minor-league numbers and narrowed to pitchers, at any and all levels, who made at least 10 starts. Out of that entire player pool, Glasnow posted the highest strikeout rate, just a hair or two shy of 40%. Obviously, it’s great to know that Glasnow was leaving his opponents flummoxed. But even more encouraging is that Glasnow managed to throw some strikes again. He threw consistent strikes for the first time since he was promoted from Double-A in 2015.

This is also pretty nuts.

That is definitely something to take encouragement in.

2015: 64.5% strikes
2016: 58.3% in AAA, 59% in MLB
2017: 60.9% in MLB, 64.8% in AAA

[DigitalGypsy66]

Well, Glasnow walks three out of the first four batters he faced (ball four on the second walk was a horrible call that got Hurdle ejected).

Two strikeouts as well.

About 33 pitches to get through the inning.

[MrKennethTKangaroo]

His walkup music should be the benny hill theme

[MrKennethTKangaroo]

Clean second inning for glasnow. A Christmas miracle!

[willeyeam]

Glasnow got hosed in the first. Should have been out with probably 25 pitches (still not ideal) and no runs. Oh well, he rebounded nicely in the second.

[columbia]

25 pitches in the 1st?

[willeyeam]

Well ****

[DigitalGypsy66]

25 pitches in the 1st?

Yeah, the ball four call to Walker was egregious, it was right down the middle of the plate. Not close to the bottom of the strike zone. Because Diaz jumped up to throw out the baserunner stealing second, the ump didn't get a good look at it. Hurdle literally called BS and was promptly ejected. Had that been strike three, Glasnow would've been out of the inning in a handful more pitches.

[DigitalGypsy66]

https://twitter.com/adamdberry/status/9 ... 2760569857

Woof.

[columbia]

I can't imagine why anyone would have been skeptical about Glasnow helping the Bucs to get a 2016 playoffs spot.

[Ad@m]

The Curve are leading a best of 5 series, 2-0 vs the Trenton Thunder for the Eastern League championship.

Til, that Jose Mesa Jr. and Dante Bichette Jr. both play for the Thunder.

[Freddy Rumsen]

https://twitter.com/rumbunter/status/908156908414099457

[Morkle]

I can't imagine why anyone would have been skeptical about Glasnow helping the Bucs to get a 2016 playoffs spot.

Enjoy. Clap. Watching. Clap. The. Clap. Future. Clap. NOW. CLAP.