2024 Pirates Season Thread

Postby **King Colby** » Wed Apr 03, 2024 12:49 pm

He is brutal. Last season in 30 starts he had a 5.55 ERA, 5.90 FIP, 1.60 WHIP (!!!), 111K : 53 BB

Postby **King Colby** » Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:29 pm

Mid keller

Postby **Troy Loney** » Thu Apr 04, 2024 7:57 am

Two things in the stats I didn’t want to see.

Cruz’s k rate and Hayes’ ground ball rate. The two areas that need to be down for these guys to be core lineup contributors.

Started seeing these chinks in the armor the other day and it could be a killer.

Postby **count2infinity** » Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:02 am

0-1 in their last 1 game... this team stinks.

Postby **willeyeam** » Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:34 am

Trade everyone

Postby **MrKennethTKangaroo** » Thu Apr 04, 2024 4:08 pm

Is Paul Alexander going to be doing a lot of the pre and postgame stuff for the pirates?

Postby **King Colby** » Thu Apr 04, 2024 4:21 pm

Does he have enough time in between bourbon pours?

Postby **King Colby** » Thu Apr 04, 2024 5:53 pm

Ildemaro vargas apparently played 7 games here in 2021, which I have absolutely no recollection of occurring

Postby **Ad@m** » Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:07 pm

Postby **shafnutz05** » Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:28 pm

Nice game for Perez. Efficient too.

Postby **willeyeam** » Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:56 pm

Can't go 161-1 if you don't start 6-1

Postby **willeyeam** » Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:57 pm

Can they go 14-7 to get to 20-8? Would be peak entertainment imo

Postby **RonnieFranchise** » Fri Apr 05, 2024 4:12 pm

Jimmy Leyland throws out the first pitch of opening day.

Granted he was a heavy smoker but he seemed pretty old when he was managing in the early 90s while I was in college.

He was in his late 40s.

Pretty nice first pitch for a 79 year old.

Postby **RonnieFranchise** » Fri Apr 05, 2024 4:19 pm

Postby **MrKennethTKangaroo** » Fri Apr 05, 2024 4:21 pm

Aroused

Postby **iamjs** » Fri Apr 05, 2024 8:03 pm

Gonna have to shelf the video that I had planned for Pirates postgame twitter. Hopefully I get to debut it tomorrow.

Postby **Lemon Berry Lobster** » Sat Apr 06, 2024 1:43 am

Postby **LeopardLetang** » Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:34 am

Skenes 3ip 1h 0er 1bb 6k
Lauer 4 1 0 0 4
Chandler 3.1 4 2 2 4
Meis 3 1 0 1 3
Barco 3 0 0 2 6
Reed 4 2 0 2 6

Peguero 5-5 (2b)

Postby **Troy Loney** » Sat Apr 06, 2024 7:43 am

The chandler line isn’t good.

Barco is my pick to emerge this year.

I don’t think there’s any doubt that Skenes is ready. This is clearly just managing workload right now. I don’t see how he comes up in may at this rate.

Postby **King Colby** » Sat Apr 06, 2024 10:11 am

Hes going to be on a strict innings count as it is so no rush IMO. If they're within a few games of a WC spot I'd prefer to wait until the break and have him for the stretch run.

Yesterday's 4-7 hitters were 0/16 with 9K.

Would be nice to get cutch and Davis going here a little bit.

Postby **LeopardLetang** » Sat Apr 06, 2024 10:48 am

I read that he wasn't happy with the pitch count limit and went and threw 40 more pitches in the bullpen

Postby **genoscoif** » Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:47 pm

I read that he wasn't happy with the pitch count limit and went and threw 40 more pitches in the bullpen

I get the innings count to a degree, but it's not like he's a 19 yr old prospect. He threw 122 innings for LSU 2 years ago with 2 complete games, and looks like he averaged 6 2/3rds over 19 starts. He's also 6'6 250 with an 'easy' throwing motion.

You don't have to treat everyone exactly the same. Stretch his arm back out after you shortened it last year and this spring, and get him the hell up here.

Postby **King Colby** » Sat Apr 06, 2024 3:09 pm

19 starts is a lot different than 30-35 starts

Postby **Ad@m** » Sat Apr 06, 2024 4:47 pm

Postby **willeyeam** » Sat Apr 06, 2024 5:25 pm

Falter is a baller