OT: Pirates Talk: Lets Play Ball

[ChaosAgent]

@Empoleon8771 crushing me for my Castro > Gonzales take years ago.

Gonzales is legit the 2nd best player on this team.

 

[ChaosAgent]

Reds Designate Jeimer Candelario For Assignment

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Yes, please. At the least the team has determined that Horwitz is a platoon 1b.

 

[BusinessGoose]

@Empoleon8771 crushing me for my Castro > Gonzales take years ago.

Gonzales is legit the 2nd best player on this team.

There's a few LLWS players that would be 2nd best on this team

 

[wheelz87]

Nicky G 5 hits wow. Really sucks he missed so much time.
Bart 0 for 5 4K lol.

 

[ChaosAgent]

Nicky G 5 hits wow. Really sucks he missed so much time.
Bart 0 for 5 4K lol.

Davis's emergence is just as much about Bart handing it to him on a platter. He looks hopeless at the plate.

 

[cookthebooks]

didnt davis have more of a good month of may than an emergence? june been pretty ugly for him

 

[ChaosAgent]

didnt davis have more of a good month of may than an emergence? june been pretty ugly for him

True, but even his failures have had better vibes than before. I would rather see him than Bart right now.

 

[ImporterExporter]

Davis busting completely as a 1.1 is a huge miss for a team as cheap as the Pirates. You simply cannot f*** up a 1.1 in our situation and it looks like Davis is, at best, a backup C at the MLB level.

I'm less aggressive when it comes to bitching about Cherington not signing better players, simply because the money isn't there to spend (and most FA's aren't going to pick Pittsburgh over another city, unless we can overpay, which we can't), but missing on premium draft picks, especially 1st overall, is a major red flag.

Gonzo staying healthy and hitting well would certainly ease the pain a bit. Obviously Skenes was a grand slam of a pick. Griffin is off to as good a start as we could have hoped for.

Chandler has been scuffling the past month, a very ugly stretch that has to put a damper on his arrival. Hopefully it's just a bad stretch and not a sign of something worse, especially considering Skenes is surely gone in a few years.

 

[Booker T]

Think we're going to have to put up at least 6 today to win.

 

[BusinessGoose]

I dunno if we have 6+ in us... But if MIL doesn't blow us out, we have a good chance. Seems to be how every game goes between these two. Close win for us, or major win for them

 

[Booker T]

Just brutal. Bases loaded, no outs, zero runs. Just brutal.

 

[Factorial]

Another GG for Hayes is nice but he needs to hit.

 

[BusinessGoose]

Well... Wave goodbye to the ship

This game as sailed