Tag Archives: Baseball

Setting A Pirates Lineup

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t7622-126837f As the last of the fireworks are used up, the Pirates find themselves with a clear starting nine. Can the team take feelings out and play that starting lineup based solely on results? We have the perfect #2 and #3 hitters to build around, and putting those hitters in the right spots should maximiseContinue reading “Setting A Pirates Lineup”

The Youth Movement Won’t Stop, Even if Veterans Slow it Slightly

This team isn’t by any stretch of the imagination a finished product. They haven’t fully moved on to youth, nor have they entirely decided that veterans have no place. When the team brings up players from the IL this week, it’s gong to come at the expense of young players.

Temporarily.

Two Guys Talkin’ Trades – Ben Gamel

I think the folks are sick of us drumming up trades for the fan favorites, and the hometown heroes.  So this week I thought we’d talk Ke’Bryan Hay.. I’m just kidding.  Let’s talk about the man that’s been lost in the shuffle, Ben Gamel. 

Not All Pirates Problems Are Bad

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xxxei-125fafa Matt Capps joins us to express concerns about David Bednar’s use, and he has the life-experience to speak on it. He also talks about what he sees lately from Mitch Keller. Is this the breakthrough? Mike Persak of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette also joins us to figure out what happens to young call-ups on theContinue reading “Not All Pirates Problems Are Bad”

3 Burning Pirates Questions

Sometimes asking questions is as far as we can get on a subject. Oh, we’ll all have opinions, some will back those opinions by facts, or even individual versions of facts, but I’m of the belief that we needn’t be qualified to answer a question, in order to ask it.