The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team Season Thread

[Freddy Rumsen]

Pirates murdered Drew Smyly so bad in that inning the Braves quit.

[Troy Loney]

Musings after back to back blowouts at the hands of the rag-tag pirates squad

- I forgot about Edgar Santana, any bullpen arm is a luxury for this team
- This Bednar guy they got in the Musgrove deal could be interesting, an integral part of the BP rebuild, or a trade chip
- The BP basically needs to be rebuilt from scratch, RichRod is not a legitimate backend guy, so I hope the plan is for him to fool a team by notching some saves, and sell him as such being the ideal scenario
- Assuming Crowe and Yajure make the team, the rotation kind of becomes a mix and match beyond Brault, Keller and Kuhl. The former two will group with Brubaker and Anderson to fill out the final spots, and basically engage in a months long competition to be a MLB starting pitcher or a swing man in the bullpen.
- Polanco looking like a masher in ST is a good indication that his season is trending towards putting up amazing April numbers, getting hurt, and then looking a guy picked up off the street and inserted into a ML starting lineup in between Dl stints for the rest of the season
- Todd Frazier means less Moran, so that's a good thing
- Cole Tucker still can't hit, with Alford and Fowler now on the 25-man, I don't see him sticking around long unless they trade Gonzalez and A. Frazier

[willeyeam]

[Freddy Rumsen]

[DigitalGypsy66]

Blake Cederlind to the 60 day DL, with a UCL strain...of course. Probably TJ surgery next. Guy just throws too hard.

Cahill will take his spot on the 40 man.

[willeyeam]

Great. Thought he'd be a decent closer to flip in a couple months. Can't even do that

[DigitalGypsy66]

[Freddy Rumsen]

Bet Cahill was the plan to replace Cederlind

[Troy Loney]

They need more starters, makes sense to bring in a guy like Cahill to eat innings. I don't think Anderson or Brubaker are guys you can really run out there every fifth day. I mean, obviously not if your trying to win, but that you don't destroy all your bullpen arms.

[DigitalGypsy66]

I saw a headline that said the Pirates may use a six man rotation. So that's interesting.

[willeyeam]

We don't even have four starters

[Troy Loney]

Define starter

[willeyeam]

Major league pitchers that can throw 6+ innings without letting up 10 runs

[DigitalGypsy66]

You’ll get 5IP, and like it, ulf.

[willeyeam]

If we're lucky

[MrKennethTKangaroo]

Edgar Santana today:
0.1 IP 5 hits 6 runs 6 earned runs 1 walk 1 hr

after 3 scoreless outings

good news is that frazier keeps hitting the living hell out of the ball

[willeyeam]

Yes he is 10-15 this spring as I noted in the Pitt thread

[King Colby]

Which frazier

[Troy Loney]

Adam

[Freddy Rumsen]

Pirates just owning the Twins this afternoon. Have nine hits in five innings, five scoreless for the pitchers.

[Freddy Rumsen]

[Ad@m]

Keller: 2IP 10H 8ER

[King Colby]

Keller: 2IP 10H 8ER

#TankForGreen

[Dickie Dunn]

Keller will be a turd until he's moved elsewhere. It's been a tradition since Charlie Morton.

[faftorial]

I'm watching today's game against the Rays. Hayes is going to be fun to watch this summer.