Question for all knowing board. Will the Pirates lose this season?
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It’s criminal what this ownership has done. But then again, he fits right in with most of the other owners.
L⚾L!
I know quite a few and a few guesses
Quail-Virdon
Tiger-Hoak
Deacon-Law
Cobra-Parker
Dog-Skinner
Vinegar-Mizell
Arriba-Roberto
Whip-Kison
Stu-Stuart
How about
Mad Dog
Slick
Hit Man
Scrap Iron
Happy Panamanian
Candy Man
Otter
Scoops
Pags
Rook
How about Derek Bell? They called him a real Pirate because he lived on a boat and stole the team’s money.
LOL
Well, at least the Brewers went down to the Twins,
so the /🏴☠️irates stay (for now) atop the NLC.
So far, this team strikes out at an incredible rate, and their presumed number one starter has been well below average going back to after the All Star break last season, and has been terrible in his two starts this season. They have a pretty difficult schedule in April, assuming that they play many of those games because the Northeast and Midwest are experiencing some very "beautiful" April weather.
Their actual on-field performance has been worse than their actual record.
Kinda like, when a 🏈team, despite being on the losing end of the time of possession stat, they still win the game. It happens.
PNC Park should be pretty electric tomorrow to welcome home the 6-1 Pirates. 🖤🦜⚾🏴☠️💛!
I'm dating myself here...
I'm dating myself here...
They need a win today. The turnaround has been a joy to watch. I am suspicious that it coincides with Jarry’s absence.
This makes me laugh! Nutting should be made to wear this attached to his clothing on a continuous loop any time he appears in public until the Pirates make it back to the World Series.
Buccos win again. Give up 3-0 but keep the O’s from scoring in 9th with man on third and no outs after it got tied up.
They have a couple come from behind wins this year that would have been unnoticed ho-hum losses in many recent seasons.
They have a couple come from behind wins this year that would have been unnoticed ho-hum losses in many recent seasons.
I know that they have played two below average teams in their first three series, but they've achieved a 8-2 record by really noy playing great baseball. What I mean by this is that they are supposed to be a good defensive team, but have committed a lot of errors, including three by a Gold Glove third baseman, and their All Star closer already has blown two saves.
The core group of this team has played really good baseball since after the All Star break last season. They won 76 games last year while playing all but one week without Cruz, who is a difference maker. There's no reason why they can't win 82 to 84 games this season, and remember that the NL World Series particpant only won 84 games last season. What's more is that Skenes will be up soon, and he has been exceptional so far at AAA.
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Raise it! Off to the best start since they actually had a championship caliber team.
Bednar is garbage. Third blown save in a row and Steve Blass disease. Can't throw a strike has no clue where it's going, but today's loss is on Shelton. You can't put him back out there when you know damn well something is wrong. Poor manager.
They have a borderline HOF closer who has been on two WS winning teams and unhittable this season, and he's been relegated to the eighth inning role, which is ridiculous. If Chapman were from Mars, PA like Bednar, he'd be the closer.
After two batters today, the idiotic manager should've seen that Bednar had nothing today and pulled him. My guess is that Shelton won't be the manager when this team finally makes the playoffs again; he never has shown me any tactical awareness.
It was strictly minor league managing. Until they hire an actual manager they will continue to lose about 6 to a dozen games per season they should have won. Just another part of The Nutting effect.
Fans booed him as he walked off the field. Players were pissed. And I agree.
He is a two time all star and was great last year. Any coach would give him some time to figure it out.
All players go into slumps, even the best of all time. And many come back even better.
Fans booing this early is stupid. Doesn’t help anything.
There is always a delicate balance between a coach continuing to play or bench an athlete who (maybe temporarily) lost their "mojo". By yanking them you can shake their confidence even more, but to keep playing them you risk the player's further downslide ... and the team's loss. Shelton chose the former yesterday and it cost the Pirates. With three blown games, Bednar now needs to work on a different kind of "save". He's in a tough spot.
You're right and I wasn't even thinking about that. With that said, he then should've been removed after the third batter.
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I believe that most of the fans were booing the situation more than the player. Bednar has pitched horribly so far this season, and has no business trying to close games right now. He hardly pitched in Spring Training, and looks like he's in early March form. The manager should know this and use Chapman as the closer, who literally has been unhittable so far, and not forcefeed the hometown hero when he's currently incapable of doing the job.
I think that we all know that this team probably has a ceiling of 82 to 84 wins this season, and you can't keep throwing away games like yesterday and even last Saturday when Bednar also blew a save but the Pirates won in extra innings. Right now, until and if he regains his form, Bednar should be a middle innings pitcher.
Only the Pirates can have the good fortune to somehow end up with an Aroldis Chapman and then figure out a way to screw it up.
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