Get Up Everybody and (Vogel)Sing: The 2016 Pittsburgh Pirates

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or, The Team With Three Fifth Starters

Matt Joyce, milb contract

also Bobby Parnell?

parnell went to the tigers

jon niese sucks

he does have the pirates' first hit tho

welcome to searageburgh, juan nicasio

nicasio was great in LA as a reliever, he just made every lefty babe ruth. if they can tweak his breaking stuff to make him more effective against lefties he can get away with starting again.. maybe

The Pitch Doctor: The secret to the Pirates' success is Ray Searage

http://www.si.com/mlb/2016/03/28/pittsburgh-pirates-ray-searage-pitching-coach

jon niese ends his spring with an 8.40 era

work faster, ray searage

Not enough beets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFAbXnlzZGQ

so Cutch is 2nd and Freese 3rd?

from FB:

John Jaso has white guy dreads now.
The Pirates are no longer likable.

MLB RBI leader Francisco Liriano

Liriano leading the league in RBI.

haha!

SUCK IT, CARDS

liriano now .750/.750/1.000

Go play in a basepath, why don't you, Jah Jaso.

it is terrible, isn't it

Bludclot

Sussman, BP: "I won't make a joke about John Jaso's hair, nor will I lampoon his religion, which happens to be 25-Man Rosterfarian."

michael morse has been designated for assignment

justin masterson has applied for the searage treatment . . . or at least the dean trainor procedure

@Sawchik_Trib
Pirates have stranded 88 runners this season, most in MLB. Next closest: Dodgers (69).

the ol' LOB-er

#Pirates 1B John Jaso, through 60 PA, has yet to swing and miss at a pitch in the strike zone.

hitting astonishingly well

pitching for shit

basically already playing for the wild card anyway

the pirates will make up a weathered-out game in colorado on june 9

they play in pittsburgh on june 8 and june 10

ooh, a run

well that was a thorough shit-kicking

the cubs.

the cubs.

ugh. the cubs.

wildcard race should be interesting this year, at least. i hope.

jung-h<3

didn't see his first one, but that second was *crushed*

what's that thing they did in the dugout? they all raised their hands and then brought them down and yelled "____"?

haven't explored because i'm worried that it's RFI: The origin of that stereotypical "oriental" song that plays in movies and is also featured in "China Girl"

now being outscored 28-5 by the cubs in 3.5 games this year

I don't think I've ever seen a pitching coach get tossed for refusing to break up a mound visit before.

I mean I assume he got tossed for saying something to the ump but the whole thing was weird. Cervelli was really pumped up about something during the conversation even before the ump came over.

maybe the pitching coach slept with the umpire's wife, and cervelli is sleeping with the pitching coach

37-11 in five games

and tbf, cervelli's pretty much always pumped up

saw most of that game, i know ive seen a manager tossed on mound visit before

30yo catchers are certainly a risk, but the cervelli extension seems like a pretty sweet deal for the pirates

over the five years of russell martin's jays contract, cervelli will be making less than half the money for what is (so far) better production

(he is babiped all to hell tho)

shame about the pitching staff

taillon/glasnow can't be worse

seven innings, zero strikeouts from cole tonight, but a win

A friend of mine just gave me his mlb.tv password, so hopefully I'll be able to keep track again. Without the internet I'm pretty much blocked from following baseball. Just got offered a flat though, so in a month I'll be able to keep up.

vogelsong took a fastball to the face

extended polanco just in time, apparently

jeff locke, babip master

not his pitching style his face

mook, what's with Cutch? kinda long for a slow start.

heard he has a wrist injury, but i dunno. it's pretty bad -- he's the pirates' fourth-best outfielder 60 games into the season

and considering he's only their third-best defensive outfielder, he shouldn't be playing center either

under .500; brewers are creeping up

where have you gone, ray searage's magic

erik kratz!

Please tell me his nickname is Wild Kratz.

yung chad kuhl not having a great top of the 1st huh

got out of it, but 3 consecutive walks is not great bob

whoops, 2

might be a lil nervous, making his mlb debut against kershaw on national tv

I think it's that horrible fucking hat tbh

just went through a 1-2-3 nicely tho, even when it's the bottom of an order still nice to see from a rook

!

destroyed space and time there

i mean Kershaw

bodes well for the Wild Card game

pirates blew a chance for their first four-game sweep of the dodgers since . . . 1944

well shit

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-jung-ho-kang-accused-sexual-assault-in-chicago-20160705-story.html

try glasnow more

Jon Niese wanted to get away Sunday afternoon.

Niese had showered, dressed and was clutching the handlebars of his motorized scooter — decaled with a Donald Trump campaign sticker — as the media entered the clubhouse after the Pirates' 6-5 loss to the Chicago Cubs.

After allowing five runs and eight hits over 3 2/3 innings Sunday, Niese finished the first half with a 5.13 ERA.

smdh

i'm assuming all the white guys have em til i hear othwise

somehow i missed the news that polanco was extended a couple months ago. great move by the pirates, i really like him. he's tied in my mind to oscar taveras because they came up around the same time and had similar hitting profiles, i guess. for whatever reason he always reminds me of OT and for that reason alone i want him to be a HOF

https://twitter.com/sbnation/status/754812314558210048

me irl

93 games into the season:

francisco liriano: -0.3 bwar
andrew mccutchen: -0.4 bwar

i have no idea what the pirates are doing

jfc

wouldn't surprise me if the jays immediately cut liriano and pocketed mcguire/ramirez but i guess they have nothing to lose by giving him a few innings. he's been legit awful this year, but he was actually good as recently as 12 months ago -- does he really have less upside than wade miley, whom the orioles acquired on purpose?

i think pirate fans have made their peace with the fact that the team's not going to sign big free agents, which is fine. they seldom work out. giving up two decent prospects just to dump liriano's salary is pathetic, though. i want to see what they plan to do with that $15m they just saved -- essentially nothing in today's market. not only that, the guy they got back from toronto is a fly-ball pitcher who gives up too many homers -- exactly the kind of pitcher they've avoided for years.

at least they're not moving to cobb county, i guess

i think the Jays are planning on moving Sanchez to the pen (due to inning limit) and they like Liriano better than Hutch to step in. he also makes roughly what Dickey does and will probably be Dickey's replacement next year. i guess they're banking on Martin being able to help Liriano settle down.

if the jays consider liriano an asset now, let alone a feasible starter next year, then not only was it a salary dump but the pirates also got fleeced -- they shouldn't have had to throw in the two prospects as well

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pirates vs NL west, last three seasons: 69-29 (.704)

pirates vs brewers, last three seasons: 20-27 (.426)

(nice)

David Schoenfield:

The Pirates are just one behind the Cardinals for the second and final National League wild card and just three games behind the sinking Giants.

When Pittsburgh traded Mark Melancon and Francisco Liriano, everyone viewed it as the Pirates waving a white flag. Tony Watson is 7-for-8 in save chances since the trade, and he got the win in the save he blew. Felipe Rivero, acquired in the Melancon deal, has pitched scoreless baseball in eight of his nine appearances. McCutchen has four two-hit games in his past six, so maybe -- just maybe -- he'll get on a tear down the stretch.

One thing Pittsburgh needs to do is clean up when it plays the Brewers and Reds. The Pirates are 10-10 against them, but will play them in 18 of their final 44 games. Of course, they also have seven remaining against the Cubs, against whom they've gone just 3-9 this season. FanGraphs puts the Pirates' playoff odds at 34 percent. But that's a lot higher than two weeks ago, when they were 53-53.

Has Clint Hurdle given up the gum? I think it's three nights in a row I've turned on the Pirates game and he doesn't have a big mouthful.

Pirates vs Cubs, 2016

3 wins
12 losses
58 runs for
91 runs against
.227/.310/.365 for
.294/.388/.512 against

@Buster_ESPN
Prediction: Somebody is holding some kind of a meeting within the Pirates' organization sometime within the next 24 hours. Very ugly.

tbf someone in a lot of different organizations will probably hold a meeting within the next 24 hours.

ffs

no help at all for the Mets eh

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nice

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They were already pretty much dead but this game feels like the nail on the coffin.

pretty much

probably confused the cubs' starter with pittsburgh rocker karl hendricks and wanted to help out his cy young candidacy

Ha ha I always get confused about which one is Kyle and which one is Karl

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trolled by the montgomery biscuits

http://content.sportslogos.net/logos/39/1327/full/n18cdnq8q8ceec7qga0sy3bgr.gif

whaddyagonnado? asked the anthropomorphic biscuit, rhetorically

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alas, no serpico bobblehead

Thought it was Mac from Always Sunny.

gerrit cole threw 114 pitches before they took him out today