◆NEWSPirates Notes: Keller, Pitching Pursuits, Lineup◆ROSTERSigned free agent RHP Enmanuel Nunez to a minor league contract◆STATPaul Skenes ranks 4th in the NL in strikeouts (200)◆STATNick Gonzales ranks 4th in the NL in batting average (.303)
◆NEWSPirates Notes: Keller, Pitching Pursuits, Lineup◆ROSTERSigned free agent RHP Enmanuel Nunez to a minor league contract◆STATPaul Skenes ranks 4th in the NL in strikeouts (200)◆STATNick Gonzales ranks 4th in the NL in batting average (.303)
The Pirates drop under .500 once again as they lose to the Brewers 4-2 on Tuesday night. Logan Henderson showed why he was not available in the Tarik Skubal trade, and the Brewers bullpen was lights out. Jared Jones surrendered 4 to the Milwaukee lineup and that was all she wrote. The Pirates continue to slip in the Wild Card race, and are running out of games where staying around .500 is acceptable. Watch Tyler and Doug breakdown the action further here:
The Brewers are Good, But You Need a Big Win Streak
It was always going to be a large ask to have this team go into Milwaukee and sweep the division leaders. In a vacuum, losing 4-2 against a pitcher with a sub-3 ERA is understandable. However, after dropping 3 of 4 to the Reds, the Pirates desperately need a prolonged winning streak to help them catch the Phillies and Diamondbacks. Jared Jones needed to be elite tonight and wasn’t, and the offense had to get to the Brewers bullpen and didn’t. The team now sits 4 games back of the 6th seed, which is unacceptable considering they were buyers at the deadline. .500 will not be enough to make the playoffs; they must start sweeping teams. Even 2/3 isn’t enough because of how many games the Pirates have thrown away. If they are serious contenders, they go on a run and win 9 of 10 games and catapult themselves back into the conversation. As it stands, the team isn’t playing at the level needed to make the playoffs.
The Middle of the Order Has Been a Problem
The offense has been in a slump as the days have turned hot, and the culprit has been the middle of the lineup. Tonight, the Pirates’ 3-6 hitters went a combined 0-16 with 7 strikeouts. They all failed to reach base a single time. While the Pirates do have offensive depth that has carried them through some fantastic times, they are currently being let down by the big names. Bryan Reynolds has been absent for a month and a half, Esmerlyn has cooled off significantly, and Nick Gonzales is costing the team both at the plate and in the field. The Brewers have one of the best pitching staffs in the league, but this has been a major problem since the All Star Break. Luckily, Brandon Lowe has broken out of his funk, but now it is time for the rest of the team to deliver. Far too often over the past 3 weeks have we been depending on rookies and fringe players to deliver the runs. It is time for the big boys to step up and fuel a playoff run.
It Is Time To Let Jared Jones Pitch
Jared Jones was not great tonight, as the Brewers got 4 runs off of him in 4 innings. He surrendered 8 hits, and 2 of those were home runs that proved to be too much for the offense to match. However, the bullpen did surrender a run in no small part due to the fact that they had to cover 5 innings because Jones was pulled after the 4th at 83 pitches. I understand wanting to be cautious with Jared; he is a vital part of this team right now. However, the training wheels need to come off at some point. He needs to be allowed to go to 100 pitches and not be limited to small starts. Especially with the injury to Mitch Keller, the Pirates need innings from their starting rotation. Jones needs to provide the most value possible, and that isn’t going to happen when he’s limited to 80 pitches and 5 times warming up. I don’t blame Don Kelly for this; this has to be a call made from on high and the front office.
Comments· 2
The Debate
Should the Pirates keep playing Esmerlyn Valdez every day through his 36% strikeout slump?
Peas DaddyRegular· 98d ago
The playoffs are NOW and the Pirates need to realize that. I’m wondering if the DFA of Ozuna will light a fire under some asses!
normo0066NS9 Legend· 98d ago
The Pirates need to get the bats going Shenes has to step it up every game is crucial.
With Doug Ford and Tyler Sweeney.
Chapters
Key takeaways
1
Esmerlyn Valdez's slump was coming. He's not a 1.200 OPS guy, and now he's striking out 36% of the time. Keep playing him anyway: he'll anchor this lineup for years.
2
The front office should have fixed the bullpen back in late May. The deadline moves made the team better, but waiting until the last minute cost them games.
3
Jared Triolo's misplay on a routine ground ball should have been ruled an error. Official scoring has become way too generous.
4
Wilber Dotel looks like he belongs in the majors. The hosts are comfortable with him as the team's only real starting-pitching depth.
5
Don Kelly's sixth ejection was over nothing. He's gone to the well too many times, and it no longer sparks the team.
All right. What's going on, beautiful people? You're listening to the North Shore Nine podcast presented by FanDuel. I'm Tyler. With me is Doug. And you're listening to the NS9 postgame show powered by Permanent Brothers, where we are not giving away sandwiches after the trade deadline, where it felt like we'd be giving away a lot of sandwiches.
Doug, the bats fall silent tonight. Jared Jones does not look as terrific as he should. And here we are.
Yeah, a flat game from the Pirates tonight. And, you would have thought maybe there was a little fire and motivation after the trade deadline acquisitions. you thought they'd come out raring to go, but that's not what happened.
3, 4, 5, and 6 goes 0 for 16. The team strikes out 11. a couple of solo home runs, but they never really looked like they were mounting anything or threatening to do anything.
As the overlay suggests, somebody please wake up the bats. It's been a couple, it's been a couple weeks here where, they've been a little bit, they were saved here and there by some putrid defense in Cincinnati for one game.
They've scraped by with a little bit of small ball and, a home run here and there, because they can still do that.
It's a bad game. Things happen.
But I'm with you, Doug. I feel, I feel like coming out of that deadline, I was a little bit ready to go.
like, I had a little bit rejuvenation here thinking that we might have something here.
I was excited to.
Yeah. And they just laid an egg tonight.
Yeah. Yeah. It was just a flat and I get it. It's 162 games. It's dog days of summer, all this stuff.
Still, it's not, I guess I've been saying this for a couple of shows now, we're in the playoffs, right? The games are important. You can't throw anything away. You need to be bringing the intensity and they just, they're just not doing it.
maybe tomorrow. Donnie's fired up. He's getting thrown out every other game, but nobody else.
We'll get to that. I'm sure we'll get to that.
Real quick, before we get into this whole thing, we know our guy, Michael B's got to be heard from and shout out to him.
Cause what a guy Michael B. Thank you. And he says he's had it enough. Doug and Tyler, this team cannot get any winning streak together.
They stink four games back. Now have a wild card. They aren't making the playoffs.
Have a hard time arguing with it.
No, Michael often makes very good points.
It's, he and I have gone back and forth a little.
I'm like, Hey, look, they have it in them. They could do it.
And he's like, I don't know why you think that dog, they don't win two in a row very often.
They don't win three in a row. And, yeah, it's four games back.
And it's not just that there's four games back that there's like, 73 teams ahead of them.
And, it's, you're, you just can't say, Oh great. We'll just rip off 10 wins and, it'd be fine.
It's like these other teams are playing too. They're striving for the playoffs. They made improvements. They added new guys.
And, the more you keep losing, the more you keep having these flat meh type games, the deeper the hole is, the harder it is to dig out of it.
To be fair, they are playing the Milwaukee Brewers.
The Brewers are 27 games above five.
Yeah, they're good.
Is my math right there?
Yeah.
27 games above 500.
Holy smokes.
Yeah.
It's didn't have it today.
there's still some time here left in this series.
There's still some time left in the season or over halfway through here, but yeah, it's.
Yeah.
There's plenty of time for them to get into this, but it would be nice if they would start now, and stop telling themselves, Hey, we got to play one games at a time.
Plenty of time to get back into it.
No.
Sense of urgency.
and this just, anyway, shout out to a steel city DW been with us forever.
flat with his, location, flat with his pitching, even his body.
Like, he looked exasperated real, like early on.
Like he just, it's like, you could tell he felt like he didn't need it, that he didn't have it.
You know what I'm saying?
It's just, that was the sense I was getting as I watched him, even when he was doing okay there early on.
Yeah.
Fastball down almost a full tick today, 0.9 miles per hour down.
Average 97.5.
And I act like that slow, but right.
when, look, when you're throwing a slider fastball, have to have your A stuff.
Yeah.
And this guy's trying to throw a hundred, right?
This isn't Paul Skenes's holding it, keeping the tank or whatever he's doing with, his, deciding not to use his best philo.
This guy is especially in the first inning.
He wants to throw a hundred miles on every pitch and he just didn't have it tonight.
Not at all.
just looking at the location of these home runs, like the one he gives up to Churio.
That's a four seamer, 97 and a half, literally in the heart of the plate.
They Andrew Vaughn homers down a little bit, but it's in the heart of the play basically.
And the Brewers just, they took advantage of it.
And when you're on a limited pitch count, it's difficult to dig yourself out of that hole.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
it's, again, it's what you're going to get.
You're going to get four innings.
We feel better about the bullpen, but we don't want to see them pitching five innings right off the rip like this.
yeah, it's just, that it's not a good recipe.
Effective four inning outing is not what this team needs right now.
And it started to get away with from him there in the second inning.
he got yellow child with a ground out struck out Andrew Vaughn.
Then he walks the guy can't have it.
The next play is a ground ball to Jared Triolo, a shortstop.
And I have a major issue with this, Doug, how in on God's green earth, is that not an error?
The, scoring has become very generous, over the, over the past decade or so it's just stuff that used to just be an error.
Now is an infield hit.
It's a regular ground ball that he decided to try to back in that he could not.
It's an error on in high school baseball.
That's an error.
It's an error.
What are we doing?
Hey, have Jay Bell made that play?
It would have been an error, right?
Had Jack Wilson made that play, it would have been an error.
I don't, I don't know what happened.
I don't know when, I don't know, passing out orange laces now.
So nobody makes an error.
Everybody gets to hit.
it's a regular old ground ball that Jared Trullo just didn't feel like.
Yeah.
I don't.
Who's here for his defense.
who's here for his defense.
Let's keep that in mind.
So.
Whatever.
We need to shout out Michael again.
Yeah, we do have to give out another shout out here to Michael.
Michael says he really believes if Ben Sheridan started working to fix the bullpen in late May, we'd have a much better record to wait until the very last minute is a joke.
Again, I can't disagree with you, my man.
I, we've been saying it since late May, do something now, fix this now, overpay, do something.
And, I don't know.
again, we discussed it yesterday through Twitter.
He's not acting, he's not operating like a guy's about to get fired, so he's very secure in his position.
The end of the day, I liked a lot of the moves they made.
I think they got better yesterday.
Oh, me too.
He had a great day yesterday.
It just, it just sucks that it took this long to get there.
It would have been nice if he had did that on June 1st.
Yeah.
And, shout out here to Silas.
Tomorrow is a pendulum game.
If Paul comes out and wins us the game, it will electrify the team of fan base.
If he flops again, the morale damn might break.
I would tend to agree with that as well.
Our commenters are very smart.
They're on fire tonight.
Very accurate.
We should just shut up and just, you know.
We should leave your comments all night.
Yeah.
But in that second inning there, again, it didn't get, it didn't get away from Jared Jones there.
That's just the spot where the pitch count started getting a little bit out of hand.
And again, when you're on an 80 pitch limit, you have a 20 something pitch inning, you're going four innings.
That's it.
Yeah.
It's simple math.
There is nothing.
You don't need Jim Olytics for that.
And then, as I mentioned, the home runs came.
The first one came there in the third inning that tied the game at one to one.
And then we had another one in the fourth from Andrew Vaughn.
That was, it wasn't all that they needed, but that fourth inning they did add on with a Jackson Churio single.
That was all the Brewers needed today because the offense was non-existent.
Yeah, and that's the problem.
We're doing this focus on Jared Jones and we'll discuss the tell and all this stuff.
And they scored three runs.
Like I said, they never really mounted much of a threat.
Two solo shots, nothing from the middle of the lineup at just 0 for 16.
Just terrible.
And not really good at bats either.
No.
So, yeah, it's, yesterday I was talking about how good Valdez looked, getting those three walks.
Oh, man, today he looked like it was his first day on the job.
He looked like he should be wearing a sombrero.
A golden one.
Yes, the golden sombrero.
He got himself a golden sombrero today.
0 for 4Ks.
That day for the Buccos.
As we mentioned there, Jared Jones is just not plain and simple, not good.
Too many base runners gave up eight hits over four innings, walked a batter.
That's nine base runners in four innings, not good enough.
Nope.
No, especially since he's been pitching really well.
We've been relying on him here lately.
And to get this out, it just, it took a little wind out of everybody's sails, I believe.
They were able to get on the board there with Jacob Gonzalez and a home run.
I don't know about you, but I thought we were about to hit cruise control there, Doug.
I thought the bats were going to come alive.
It was a, it's probably as good of a lineup as you can put out today.
Yeah.
What they have available, this is as good as it gets.
Just.
Some dude named Logan Henderson diced them up.
A rookie, I believe.
he's not bad, but.
No, he's pretty, he's pretty good.
But.
Yeah.
this offense, these players, these hitters, these hitters with track record.
I'm not even talking about the young guys, right?
Brandon Lowe, Reynolds, Horwitz, those guys should be, Nick Gonzales should be getting it done.
you got production and from unexpected places and Jacob Gonzalez, home runs from Jacob Gonzalez and Endy.
And I know we're all getting excited about Endy, but it's not like he's got a long track record of, raking.
And so, it's what you got, the, what the eighth and ninth spot in there, no, the seventh and eighth spot in the lineup gave you two home runs.
Usually that's a good sign, right?
Usually that's a good sign, but you got nothing, Mangum had a hit, Brandon Lowe had two hits, but nobody behind them did anything.
So if they were on base, they didn't get to move very far.
Yeah.
When three, four, five, six combined for zero hits, that's a problem.
Yeah.
Oh, for 16 is a tough stretch in a, from four straight batters.
It's a, I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what, Doug, we're some pretty smart baseball minds here.
Yeah.
We're geniuses.
Three through six, go over 16.
You're going to have a bad time.
Chances are you're not winning that game.
Right.
And I said, and we start out talking about the pitching.
This is what the folks come for.
Yeah.
It's a hitting analysis.
Tell you what, Doug, when your cleanup hitter goes over four with four strikeouts, probably not going to be a good day.
I think since what, like, I don't know how far it goes back, but basically everything has been a walk or a home or a strikeout.
Right.
Ever since he got hit by a pitch.
Right.
Yeah.
Ever since that hit by pitch.
I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
he's playing every day.
So you'd think that, he's healthy, but, yeah.
And, we're pirate fans, so we're ready to call him Esmerlyn Valdez Nagowski at this point.
So, we get a little, a little nervous.
And just, there's going to be a lot of discord about Valdez here because the way he started and the way it's gone over this past week and a half,
it hasn't been great.
It's been pretty bad, but you can't be shocked.
We're talking to him like he was striking out at a pace.
That's not sustainable for what he was doing.
Plain and simple.
It wasn't fine.
Is that to say that I doubt any that I doubt the talent or think that they shouldn't play him?
No, like you got to keep riding him here.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You sure don't give up on him now, but he's.
Color me shocked.
He's not a 1200 OPS guy.
right.
And the kid had an OPS of over a thousand.
He was, hitting over 300.
That's not been his profile.
he is a, he hits the ball hard.
He, I think he's going to be really good.
I think he's going to anchor this lineup for a while, but he's going to scuffle.
You're in that scuffle right now.
Yes, we are.
we're striking out at a 36% rate.
That's a lot.
It's a lot.
I still like the approach.
I like what he does at the plate, but he's got to, he's got to do some damage with some of these pitches.
He's getting the least punched back on him a little bit.
He's not getting meatballs and to his credit, he was doing damage with them.
Yeah, he sure was.
But eventually the league takes notice of a guy that hits 14 home runs in a month.
Yeah, I, like I said, the other team has scouts and coaches too, right?
They're going to come up with a plan.
They're getting paid.
They're going to come up with a plan.
He's going to have to adjust, they're just nothing else.
They're just going to be more careful with them.
Like, even if they can't figure out, how to get them out, they're just, he's not going to get as many good pitches.
So when he gets his pitch, he needs to drive it.
And, it's, we'll see.
Yeah, I'm not like worked up over him, but I wish they had someone else that they could play here to maybe give them a day off.
Right.
Unfortunately, there's nothing.
No, they're, you have to keep playing them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You got to hope he works his way out of it because we can't sit him.
No.
It sucks, Doug.
It just sucks.
I wanted to see him just.
Yeah.
I wanted to see him win rookie of the month for August too.
Right.
I wanted to keep going.
I just wanted to keep crushing and, clutch doubles and clutch home runs, late inning stuff.
And right now we're not getting anything.
Hopefully tomorrow, they face a lefty tomorrow.
That's not good for most of the team, but that's pretty good for him.
And see what happens.
It ain't good for literally like any of this team.
No.
At that point, Wilberto tell us come in though.
That was about all the offense.
I wanted to talk about Doug, because it was non-existent to that.
Wilberto tell comes in, he gives you two innings, gives up a run, strikes out three and two innings.
I think all things considered, he continues to, at least, he looks like he belongs.
At least I think.
I think, yeah, he looks like a major league pitcher, at least in the bullpen.
He's got some good stuff.
I think, again, and we get to say this a lot in this episode, he's a rookie, right?
There's going to be some moments.
You're going to see the great talent shine through one game and think, all right, he's got it figured out.
And then the next game, it's just not going to be there.
This might be the last time we see do tell for a little while.
I feel Sisk should be back soon.
Yeah, I heard he was coming back today.
Yeah, I feel like he was supposed to be back like three days ago.
Or at the very least, yesterday.
This might be the last time we see do tell for a little while.
And if it is, what I'll say is that I'm relatively comfortable with him being the depth that this team has with starting pitching right now.
Because in all reality, Doug, that's all they have.
Yeah.
There's nothing left.
Right.
What they have is what they have.
Yeah, there's nobody, there's no one coming from AAA or AA right now.
Even if there was someone, he's probably on the DL as almost all the pitchers in our system are.
So, yeah, it's, but yeah, do tell is okay.
I'm not scared to death when he comes in.
He's got some good stuff.
and again, if he's coming in the fourth inning when it started it and go long, it's, you could do worse.
You could do worse for sure.
Yeah, he's, I think he's come a long way since he's been called off throughout this year.
He's learning how to get major leaguers out.
His stuff has been in the zone a lot more than I think I expected.
I've been pretty impressed by him.
I know it's been in shorter outings, but at the same time, I like using that as a developmental thing with these young starting pitchers is just, give them their taste in two, three innings first.
Yeah.
Vote on that.
Baseball did that for 120 years of the 150 years of existence.
There was four main rotations and the guys that were going to become starters worked out of the bullpen.
They were mop up guy, it was entirely different, but that's how you worked your way into the rotation.
You, it's not like it is today where you just come right up into the rotation or you're the starting quarterback on day one.
you had to, you had to sit and watch for a little while and do well when you got the opportunity.
So, yeah, I've been doing that for Doug.
125 of the 150 years of baseball.
It's just here recently alive before those 120, almost my entire life, almost my entire life.
What'd they do before that?
Listen, buddy, I, a little sketchy, the 1800s.
I didn't see, I don't see a lot of footage, so I can't exactly tell you.
Yohan Ramirez came in after, Wilbur Dothel.
He continues to just get guys out left and right.
I don't know.
I don't get it.
It works.
It's fine.
the DRA is 2.95.
Like this, guys are swinging at his stuff as it's, as it's about to hit them.
And, it's just, he's been really good.
He has blowups, you know.
I hate to get too, oh, we'll, Yohan Ramirez is the guy.
Cause as soon as I do, he's going to give a, up eight runs in an inning and everyone's going to say, why didn't, why did Donnie go to him?
And why didn't we call him?
And he should be a DFA immediately.
but he's been one of the better relievers on the team all year.
And now he might be the worst reliever on this team.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It changed like that overnight, which again is why I was excited coming into the day, Doug.
Yeah.
Me too.
I want to see, they're going to be breathing fire.
Kirby Yates to hand the ball to the Weaver and then hand the ball to Mason Montgomery and close this thing out.
That's what I wanted today.
Right.
Right.
Well, we got to, then we got to see Kirby Yates.
Yeah.
And you know what happened, Doug?
I went pee and missed it, basically.
He had two outs and five pitches.
That's what you get, man.
That's what you get.
you're too old.
You got, you got to pee every 10 minutes.
it happens to the best of us.
but just a touch on Kirby Yates here.
He comes in, during the trade deadline.
He's had a pretty good year.
He didn't miss bats today.
the first two hitters, I believe both were over a hundred miles an hour off the bat.
But three outs, clean inning.
Yeah.
Haven't seen many of those, Doug.
No, especially, in the eighth inning.
I haven't seen a lot of eighth innings where it was just, clean, perfect innings.
Right.
Again, people made good contact, but those were just outs.
It's all they were, you know.
So, yeah.
I'm so excited to see this bullpen in a, in a close game and, rolled out the way that we're expecting it to.
Like, just, yeah.
How awesome.
Give me Yates, Weaver, Montgomery, seven, eight, nine.
Boom.
Give me Soto in the six.
It's good.
You know?
Oh man.
That's so sexy.
Yeah.
I know.
Right.
Like.
You just got to score three or four runs.
Four runs.
I want to.
Four runs.
Four runs.
Magic number.
We've been talking about four runs for four years.
I think.
Yeah.
And naturally when they finally add to the bullpen, the bats die.
Just, yeah.
Just disappear.
Yeah.
MIA.
Brandon Lowe was the one thing on this offense that was useful today.
Other than the seven, eight hitters that homered, but even they just homered.
I did nothing else.
I say just homered.
Like they didn't score runs, but yeah, the strikeouts were an issue today.
Henderson just kept them in check.
And yes, he's a good starting pitcher.
He is.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He is.
But guess what?
If you want to be a good baseball team, you got to beat those guys.
that, and that's exactly it.
And you've got the offensive talent to be able to get to somebody like him, but they really didn't put much pressure on him.
He was able to cruise through it, in the rocking chair, as they say.
Yeah.
these are games you got to win.
These are, these are pitchers you have to beat.
And they didn't really put up much of a fight.
No.
you look at this, you had one, three, five base runners all day, five guys on the bases that not including those two homeruns, because obviously they weren't really base
runners, but yet five guys on the bases.
That's really not conducive to winning.
Right.
Five hits, two walks.
Well, they have five hits.
Either way.
Two of them were homeruns, so they weren't putting real pressure on them.
No.
Like you said, Jim pointed out, we only had two runners in scoring position the whole game.
and it's, and like I said, you had to hit Adam Mangum, you had to hit two hits out of Brandon Lowe.
If three, four, five, and six could have done anything, you might have, you might have put up five or six runs.
Ah, I forgot about the Trello hit by pitch.
So, add another one onto there.
Thank you.
But right.
Still not much.
And nothing, consecutively, but like I said, no pressure.
There was, I don't ever remember seeing a guy on third.
So, yeah, which explains why old Don Kelly was a little bit worked up here as he gets thrown out of his sixth game of the year, which puts me over the five and
a half mark for over unders for our preseason show.
Doug, can I be honest with you here?
I feel like he just got worked up over nothing.
Yeah.
I, the broadcasters weren't sure what he was, and he's like, that's on you.
That's on you.
I don't know that.
They don't really know what he was mad about.
Yeah.
I'm saying way.
I'm like, boy, he went zero as, to 60 pretty quick on, he didn't, let him get it, whatever the timing of how he called the strike, and it was like, yeah.
In the end, it was a strike, right?
It was a strike.
It's okay.
I like, I like Kristopher Negrón.
So I'll bring him in, let him manage.
Yeah.
He's getting some reps in.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Don's giving him reps.
Yeah.
eventually you go to the well a few too many times and like, you're not, you're not getting that spark out of it.
And today felt like one of those where you're just, you're going to the well one too many times.
Yeah.
It was a little performative or a little, manufactured, like, I don't know.
And, oh, look, Donnie's showing the guy, the TV, they've got his back.
They got his back on what?
What does he have their back on?
I'm not even sure.
I don't know what he's talking about.
Yeah.
I think the guys after the game are like, oh man, Donnie, he's got us.
If the umpire does not call the strike fast enough, Donnie's going to go out and get us.
Woohoo.
I'm going to follow this guy into hell.
That's really what it was like.
Yeah.
That's what, it was just, it's like, I don't know.
It's like he needed to make a phone call or something.
It's like, oh, you know.
Yeah.
Whatever.
I don't know, Doug.
I guess we just threw this one away.
Yeah.
One of 162.
You just bounce back tomorrow.
You've got your, and I'm saying ace in quotation marks for entirely different quotation than I would have in years past.
But you got your ace pitching tomorrow.
these are the games you got, we talk about this all the time.
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Should the Pirates keep playing Esmerlyn Valdez every day through his 36% strikeout slump?