We Ranked EVERY 2026 Pittsburgh Pirate… Paul Skenes in C Tier?!

Okay, Neil, we are back with our second half or end of season.

That is tier rankings for your twenty twenty six Pittsburgh Pirates.

Let's start with Endy Rodríguez.

So in our first half rankings, we had Endy Rodríguez in the A tier category.

Endy Rodríguez would end his season on the injured list.

But overall, Endy Rodríguez put up a two sixty seven average seven homers, twenty RBI in the forty five games he did play this year.

second half sample size he only played in ten games before the injury where do we want to put Endy Rodríguez is he staying in a tier or do we move him down like just raw stats he's probably stays in a with

her expectations but i think in terms of like impact on the team you can only do so much in forty five games So I'd probably do low B high C just because he just wasn't around too

much, like.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like there was never a point like when we were right or like make or break because of Endy Rodríguez.

But that said.

Hopeful about next year.

Very hopeful.

Yes.

I want to put him in, like where you're saying, low B, high C, just because his injury, it limited the catcher's room to only have Rafael Flores Jr.

and Henry Davis.

And even though it was able to stay afloat, I think Endy Rodríguez, if he were to stay healthy, could have helped this team a lot more down the stretch.

Do we just want to put him in C for now?

Yeah.

And then we can readjust at the end.

yeah but also like it's also for someone like Endy, like yeah this is just who he is like he's made of glass that's my biggest gripe with Endy Rodríguez i love watching him play but it's like every year there's

like i think he had two injured list appearances this year two major stints and then this one he just had i think he's going to be out until around the all-star break next year if there is a next season And he missed like two years in the

minors, too.

Like, unfortunately, like it's really going to hurt.

He's got to get better and be more productive with his with his because he's good.

He's a valuable player.

He did show it at times this year, especially in the first half.

Moving on to a player that was picked first overall.

Last time we had him ranked D tier.

It is Henry Davis.

Davis, Henry Davis ended his season in ninety seven games played.

He had a good old one seventy two.

He still had ten home runs.

Thirty eight RBI in the second half.

If you guys were interested in this, Henry Davis hit a whopping.

Let's see here.

Henry Davis in the second half.

One eighty three with a five thirty eight OPS.

I think we keep him in D.

I can't move him up.

I know that we're there, but yeah.

No, don't move him up.

The only reason he's not enough for me is just because he has his defense is still really good.

Like him throwing out basically half of all runners that try to steal on him is obscene.

Like it's that's incredible rates.

So, like, that's awesome.

But I think he's going to continue to be Austin Hedges at the number one overall pick until the offense turns around.

I completely agree.

It's crazy.

He has went from number one overall pick to the backup catcher arc of his career because the next guy we are going to rank is a newcomer to the tier list.

He did not play at all in the first half.

It is Rafael Flores Jr., Who, Neil, he surged this year.

I was not a big fan of the trade.

a lot of people still aren't fans of the trade.

But Rafael Flores Jr., forty seven games all in the second half.

He hit two sixty four, a WRC plus of one hundred and thirty.

Eleven home runs, twenty five RBI.

Am I crazy with this?

I want to put him in this.

This guy was awesome.

are we a.

if we're just doing what he was like when he came up here, S is correct.

just considering expectations.

Yep, that's also part of this.

He wasn't good in AAA this year.

And no one expected anything.

No one even wanted him up on the Major League roster.

And for him to come in and basically hit arguably the best catching season we've had since Russell Martin,...

Yeah, that's an S for me.

He has seemed to cement himself as the number one catcher for next year.

And that is a story for this team, especially in this offseason, which especially coming into this past regular season, the catcher room was one where people were like, I don't think it's good enough.

Then we saw the likes of Joey Bart go.

Andy Davis.

Endy Rodríguez gets injured twice.

Henry Davis doesn't do much.

And then Rafael Flores comes up in that second half after the Andy injury and just takes control of the entire catcher's room.

People might think S tier is aggressive.

He might be like, let's put him in A because of the defense.

But still, I got to put him in S.

He completely I would say everyone's expectations were shattered with this one.

But moving on, those are the catchers.

Ryan O'Hearn, last time we did this, he was in A tier.

Ryan O'Hearn did hit the injured list at the end of the year around the final month.

He did end up coming back, which did surprise me.

His final numbers in the regular season, He had a total of, let's see here, trying to find him, and there he is.

A hundred and ten games with the injuries.

He had two sixty-five, eighteen home runs, seventy-six RBI.

In the second half, whenever he was healthy, Ryan O'Hearn only played in one hundred twelve plate appearances.

He hit one ninety-eight in a WRC plus of fifty-five in the second half.

He was not great in the second half when healthy.

where do we want to put Ryan O'Hearn?

I think he still had an overall good season, but wasn't a tier.

I think just based off like where we, when we signed him, what we expected him to do, I think he just met expectations, right?

I probably put him in B not because he's been bad.

he did have a rough second half.

The injuries really didn't help, but I think he was just one of those guys.

Like you got him, you paid the right market value for him and you got exactly what you needed to out of him.

Not anything else.

I am going to be in agreeance with you.

So I think we're going B tier for Ryan O'Hearn.

Spencer Horwitz, we were aggressive with last time because it was very self-explanatory.

We put him as well in the A tier.

Spencer Horwitz as well had a trip on the injured list this season.

He overall hit ten home runs, forty nine RBI, two forty four average.

But in the second half, after coming back from the injury, it wasn't the same Spencer Horwitz.

He had a thirty two WRC plus.

He had one eighty and one hundred fifty six plate appearance with a four sixty four OPS.

I think he's going down.

I don't know how far down we're going to put him, but I want to go C tier because the overall year.

Yeah, C tier.

Just when you were getting put in names like with like top ten OPS over the last calendar year and having that fall off.

That can't happen.

Really rough stuff.

I'm hoping he gets back to form next year.

I'd probably put him above and I'd probably put him above Andy, though.

OK, that's fine with me.

This next guy, I don't even have to read the stats for it.

It's the easiest.

It's Brandon Lowe.

Thirty five bombs, the most we've seen for a pirate in a very long time.

He shattered the second base record, which I'm pretty sure was twenty one by Neil Walker.

Yeah, I don't think that record gets broken anytime soon unless it's by Brandon Lowe if he somehow comes back.

This doesn't need much discussion.

I think he is your team MVP this year.

Anything else to add there on him?

Only thing I'll say is in the last video we did, I was hesitant to say this is a better season than Freddie Sanchez's season.

I'm going to double down on that.

This was the best second base season in my lifetime that I've seen in a Pirates uniform, and it's not close.

I think a lot of people can agree with that statement, especially me.

Nick Gonzales, very, like we said this last time, Nick Gonzales is one of those players that everyone seems to be obsessed with either horrible or he's great.

Pirates Twitter goes up in flames for everything the guy does.

We had him in B tier last time.

Overall this season, the story with Nick Gonzales was hitting over .300, which he did.

He hit .303, six home runs, 61 RBI.

games in the second half.

Nick Gonzales at two ninety six with a seven forty seven OPS and a one oh eight WRC plus.

his defense was atrocious.

It lost this team games.

but he still hit over three hundred.

I think I don't I did not expect Nick Gonzales to be all year in the batting title race.

I don't think that was on anyone's bingo card this year coming into the season.

We knew he could do it because of what he did in college at New Mexico State.

But in the org, that contact is just not really shown.

But this year it showed up last time.

Like I said, we had him in B tier.

Are we keeping him in B?

What are we?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'd be only reason to put him at the A is because this guy had zero expectations going into this year.

But I think with how bad the defense was, which isn't really his fault, but I think he's correct.

I agree with that.

And this next guy, I don't really want to read the stats for some of these guys.

Jared Triolo, last time we had him in D, when I was looking at his second half compared to his first half, it's practically the same numbers.

I'm fine with keeping him in D tier with Henry Davis.

That's fine.

We didn't get the second half crazy Triolo like we've seen in the past.

Only thing we got was when he saved that one game against the Giants.

Question mark.

I think it was the Giants.

Yeah, he basically saved the game.

Luke Weaver almost blew the game.

Besides that, yeah, very forgettable year from Triolo, which we will get to Luke Weaver as we are almost done with the position players.

Newcomer to the list, Jacob Gonzalez traded for that draft pick with the Pirates.

So this is overall numbers with the Pittsburgh Pirates here.

Jacob Gonzalez hit a total of, let's see here, he had fifty one games, hit two oh three with five home runs, fourteen RBI.

I remember we were at Chicago in Chicago and we're coming from Chicago, but we were in Cleveland for the NS nine little road trip there.

He had his first home run with the team.

He raked in Cleveland.

And we were like, huh, maybe he could be that guy.

But then ever since, he tailed off.

I'm fine with D tier for Jacob Gonzalez.

Yeah, D tier might be generous, to be honest.

You think F?

I'll hear an argument.

Not a strong one, just not a good season for him.

Yeah, it was not great, and I wouldn't be surprised if he's not in the org next year.

he's one of those guys I think they could move on from if they have to.

That's something for the guys to talk about.

Yeah, he does have options, but if there's something to cut off the roster, he might be an option this offseason.

Yeah.

Konnor Griffin, another guy who had some injuries this year.

In the last tier list we did, Konnor Griffin, we had at a B tier.

He played in eighty total games this year.

He had two seventy two with a ninety eight WRC plus six home runs.

Thirty three RBI, twenty three stolen bases for a rookie.

I'm fine with keeping KG in B.

I think he had a solid rookie year.

You might say he did.

He did good.

I don't think it was the rookie of the year expectations a lot of people had.

The injuries hold him back for me, but I think it's a solid B tier.

I don't think it's A.

I think it's a solid B.

He hit the Bobby Witt benchmark, basically.

He looked very much like rookie Bobby Witt Jr., who he's even younger than when Bobby Witt was a rookie.

The only thing I would maybe say for A is that the Pirates just won so many more games when Konnor Griffin was playing baseball, but I think B is fair.

All right.

I think we keep them below O'Hearn.

Yeah, I agree.

But I'm fine with B for now.

I think that will be something people will argue in the comments because we did get some arguments in the comments last time.

Bryan Reynolds, this is a big one for me.

Bryan Reynolds, interestingly enough, Neil, we had him as the first half MVP.

He was the top of the tier list ahead of Brandon Lowe, which after that June that he had, it was arguably should have been an all-star territory, just like Spencer Horwitz at that time.

But Horwitz is now a C-tier player.

Bryan Reynolds, overall this season, played in all one hundred sixty two games.

The Ironman of the team.

Seventeen home runs, seventy two RBI hit two sixty one with a one eighteen WRC plus.

The second half, though, is where Reynolds tailed off a bit.

He had two twenty nine in the second half with a six fifty nine OPS and an eighty one WRC plus.

He's going down from S.

But how far does Reynolds drop?

It's weird because not only was he unlucky, like all the batted balls data suggested he should have been hitting well into the second half.

I think it's really just that horrific August.

And I think it only really stands out because that's when the entire team cratered.

But when you look at the overall body of work and I still, I still think he's an, I think he was still one of our best players this year.

I want to put them in B because I feel like if Reynolds played like the June Reynolds in that second half, We might be still talking.

This video might be on delay still.

Because who knows if they're playing in the wild card right now.

Yeah.

There was a lot of frustrations in our Discord chat about Reynolds this year.

I want to put him in B.

I'm hearing you on A, but I want to put him in B.

I also think people just don't understand that Reynolds is not a superstar.

That is true.

He's just a good, solid player.

That's all he's ever been outside of one year.

But because we're the Pirates...

He needs to be the guy.

So I understand the frustration, but I think high B is fine.

I'll put him in highest B.

I think that's a good spot for him.

But it was a solid year for Reynolds, about the typical Bryan Reynolds year.

This next guy, though, also had some injuries this season.

Oneil Cruz, we had an A tier with the injury as well.

He comes back.

So overall, Oneil Cruz this season, ninety seven games.

He managed to get a twenty thirty twenty home runs, thirty stolen bases.

He had two eighty hot eighty points higher than the two hundred last year.

Oneil Cruz, since coming back, he had three fourteen and one hundred thirty six plate appearances, a nine twenty one OPS and a one hundred and fifty two WRC plus.

Oneil Cruz, people love to harp on the guy with the amount of time he played.

And you might be like, why do you put Griffin in B?

Well, Griffin didn't put up the numbers Oneil Cruz did when I say this.

I'm arguing S tier for Oneil Cruz.

Because with what people thought he was going to do this year.

Because we got comments on our A tier for Cruz last time.

And some guy commented, he still can't hit.

And you had all these people saying trade Cruz because we have Jake Mangum.

Then Oneil Cruz comes back and only I think it was ninety four games.

Managed to get a twenty thirty season.

I'm arguing S tier for the guy because he bounced back like many people wanted him to.

All I'll say is there's a reason this team was twenty games over five hundred when this guy starts.

Put him over Flores.

Yeah, I agree with that.

We are sure to get people in the comments saying he still can't field.

Well, the fielding was somehow still above league average metric.

Yeah.

It went up and things that I noticed when he came back from injury, he didn't look afraid to dive for a baseball.

Sure.

There was still some defensive gaffes.

I'll admit there was, but I can put that aside.

When he fixed his bat, he raked against the lefties.

He did his job.

He got better.

And like the guy hit two hundred last year, he would have been D tier last year.

But he did like almost like he was near three hundred for most of the time when healthy.

So Oneil Cruz, I'm putting in S tier.

I agree on that one.

Yeah.

Esmerlyn Valdez, we were really aggressive with Valdez.

Last time Valdez ranked S tier, one of the highest on the team.

I think it was third highest.

which was deserved.

Yes, it was deserved Esmerlyn Valdez in seventy two games hit two thirty two with a WRC plus of one hundred thirty seventeen home runs.

Forty seven RBI did get injured in the final month or so.

Really sucks to see there.

But in the second half, one hundred eighty two plate appearances, a seven eleven OPS hit one eighty four.

it wasn't as good in the second half WRC plus of ninety eight.

I thought the league slowly figured him out and the strikeouts were definitely a concern for Valdez with the expectation wise.

You could still argue.

Well, he blew expectations away.

anyone who came into this year saying that this guy was one hundred thirty WRC pluses.

So that alone should put him in a.

But honestly, if anything, show me what his what those stats you just read shows me what his floor is.

Even when he's striking out, he's still basically a league average hitter.

Yeah.

And he has that pop.

And we were excited about him.

I think he's an easy A.

There are there are flaws.

And, he got he got found out.

But I don't know how.

And I think he was way above everyone's expectation.

Yeah, so I'm fine with putting him in A tier for the expectations alone.

I'm sure people are going to comment, how's he in A tier?

He disappeared.

It's because of our expectations being absolutely shattered with Valdez.

I honestly didn't think Valdez was going to make the big leagues this year.

I think it was really aggressive.

And even though he did disappear at times, no pun intended for the magician thing, he still put up a really solid rookie season that I don't think a lot of people expect.

I could argue B tier where I would personally lean B tier, but since you gave me Bryan Reynolds and B, I'm going to, I'll let you have Valdez and a, I think that's fair.

I think either one's fine, but yeah, I'm more generous.

The forty five future value rookies who hit that well, even though we, even with a short with the cold stretch.

So next up, let's get through these last couple of bats really quick here.

Jake Mangum, he hit two seventy six with a WRC plus of ninety one.

He somehow I didn't expect him hit five home runs, but he did five home runs.

Thirty three RBIs, twenty three stolen bases.

What's your thoughts on Jake Mangum really quick?

Just the same as last time, B.

He's basically a two-war player.

Good fourth outfielder.

Made some stupid plays, but that's okay.

He was overall positive for the team.

And then speaking of positivity, our last one, he made the cut.

Billy Cook, I was tempted to put Cone as a category because he was basically cone hoister.

Defensive replacement, I'm not going to put him in F.

I'd put him in C. I don't know.

He did his job.

The Pirates had an obscene record when Billy Cook was playing.

I don't know if that's a correlation to his defense or just like he came in when Don Kelly wanted to hold a lead, but...

Yeah, we were there for the Billy Cook game in Cleveland, which I joked about.

I was like, oh, here we go.

The Sunday lineup and then Billy Cook gets like a double.

I think he almost had a home run.

I almost called the home run too at the game.

And I remember DiNardo looked at me.

He was like, you really almost called that.

I was like, I can't believe that.

Billy Cook people will probably say, put him in F, put him in D, but let's put him in C.

C for Cone.

That's what we're going to do with Billy Cook.

So let's wrap this up really quick.

We got some pitchers to go through.

Paul Skenes, this is the big one a lot of people are frustrated with this year.

Paul Skenes, ten and eleven and thirty-two starts.

He has a three-eight-two ERA.

Paul Skenes in the second half of the season.

This was another one that also made people a little frustrated.

You could say Paul Skenes in the second half went a total of a four, three ERA and sixty six innings of work.

Paul Skenes last time we had in B tier because of overall expectations.

I want to lower him to C.

this was not a great year for Paul Skenes based off coming off a Cy Young coming off a rookie of the year.

Sure.

He still had the two hundred strikeouts, but like we said for Valdez expectation wise, I think this was a C season for Paul Skenes.

I won't argue it, but it just speaks to how good Paul Skenes is that he can be top fifteen in the league in war and be in the C tier.

But I understand why people are frustrated.

I still firmly hold to that idea that like fifteen percent of the runs weren't his fault.

You can have that argument.

And the only reason I will put him in C tier is because of the expectation factor alone.

You're coming off this Cy Young and it was just nothing but where's his fastball?

Where's his velocity?

And then you see him throwing ninety four mile per hour fastballs down the middle, getting cranked for home runs.

And it's like, what on earth happened to Paul Skenes?

You could argue B.

I would want to put him in B, but I'm going to put him in C just because of the frustrations alone I had.

And I'm sure a lot of fans had those frustrations, too.

Braxton Ashcraft, we had an S tier back in the first half.

Ashcraft finished his season really solid.

He had a overall fourteen and six record only pitcher above like with that many wins this year for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the starting rotation.

He, of course, would go one hundred sixty five and a third innings of work.

A three sixty five ERA.

we had him in S tier last time around that same ERA.

He was an all star.

Are we keeping him in S?

I could see an argument for a, but like, I'm fine with that.

Yeah, I think A.

I don't even think it's necessarily a talent thing.

I think he really started to feel the innings, but just blew everyone away and really excited to see him next year.

Yeah, you put it perfect for me.

he did tail off in that second half a good bit, but also had those back-to-back dominant starts, the one in Miami and then the one at home.

It was just wow.

I think it was like nine innings and then eight innings right back-to-back.

It made national headlines.

But Ashcraft, let's put him in A.

I agree with the innings thing.

Bubba Chandler had an overall what you would call what I was saying, at least.

He had the perfect rookie season, in my opinion.

He showed some ups.

He showed the downs.

He was able to bounce back from those ups and downs alone.

Bubba Chandler went eight and ten this season with an overall ERA of a four sixty two.

got inflated in that last start.

Bubba Chandler last time we put in C tier.

I want to leave him in C tier.

Same.

Yeah.

So the only reason I would even think about putting him in B is that he showed development, not walking guys.

Yeah.

But the numbers in the longevity and games never really improved.

And I'm sorry, you're a top ten prospect.

I needed to see more development this year.

Yeah, I'm excited to see what Bubba Chandler will definitely do in twenty twenty seven if there is baseball.

I'm excited to see what he works on because he did show some signs.

It was just some of those starts down the stretch, inflated that ERA a good bit.

He stays put at C tier.

Jared Jones just came off a historic and historic month.

It was like the second Pirates pitcher ever to do what?

He did this last month in September, but Jared Jones overall five and six coming off the injury where he missed all of last season, a three seventy two ERA in the second half, actually, because he also put up some good numbers

here in the second half.

Jared Jones with a three eight ERA.

But also that is also the month of September helped him.

especially he had like the one era in september he looks like the jared jones many people thought they wanted to see it is the jared jones that this rotation needed where do we want to put jared jones last time he was a

a yep yeah just unreal season i don't care i don't care if he had to slip up he carried a perfect game or no hitter into the sixth inning three times yeah He had two separate months with sub two

yard, like almost sub one era baseball.

Just a ridiculous pitcher who, unlike Chandler, had huge jumps in development.

I completely agree there.

Jared Jones, A-tier.

Let's keep these ones simple.

Mitch Keller, I'm keeping an F.

This was bad.

Not a lot of expectations.

Just go back to the first half video.

Basically the same because he only made two starts in the second half.

Yohan Ramirez, last time we had an C-tier.

S-tier.

You know what?

Screw it.

Let's do it.

A hundred strikeouts, he gave us eighty innings of sub-three ERA baseball from a guy who got cut from the rebuilding Pirates twice.

He was our most consistent pitcher out of bullpen.

That's an easy S-tier.

Yohan Ramirez was a non-tender candidate this time last year.

I remember the guys saying, will Yohan Ramirez be back?

And now we have Yohan Ramirez higher than Paul Skenes.

Who could have guessed?

Three tiers above Paul Skenes.

Yeah, which is nuts.

Carmen Mlodzinski, we had in a surprising B tier with all the drama.

I really would put Carmen in F just because I want to be a starter thing.

I'm going to call my agent, blah.

do we keep him in B?

Definitely not B. He wasn't even like, he wasn't, I don't even feel like it was that great.

I would put him in D tier to be honest.

Carmen Mlodzinski overall this season had a three, nine, five ERA eight and seven record, thirty seven games, twelve starts.

We're putting him in C, D.

That's fine.

I guess we can do C.

I don't know.

His insistence on starting is just so bad.

And then they didn't use him the right way.

It was just like, let's only let him pitch when he wants to pitch or let's make a schedule.

But then at the end of the year, they finally let him do one inning outings and it worked mainly.

Gregory Soto, we had last time in the C tier.

Where do we want to put Soto?

be i think he redeemed himself i think he was he was a solid reliever for this team made his money for seven million dollars i think that's a good investment i am fine with gregory soto there he had a three six three era struggled in the

first half but we'll say he went up in the second half mason montgomery this team has found a closer S tier.

I agree.

just he, until last, no, I'll put them there without giving up an ER, giving up an earned run.

We found our next big time closer.

He was a throw in for the, in the Brandon Lowe trade.

Like, Oh my incredible stuff.

This one might surprise a lot of people.

We had Evan Sisk in the first half.

I'm ashamed of this.

He was really good in that first half, Neil.

One of the better lefties we had.

We had Evan Sisk in the A tier.

This aged poorly.

We were starving.

We were starving in that first half.

He was the highest because everyone else, I went back to the video before this.

I think everyone in that bullpen was D tier or lower.

Except for Yohan Ramirez.

I think he was also C-tier.

But D-tier or lower for everyone else in the bullpen.

We were starving for anything.

Evan Sisk ended the year with an overall 3.02 ERA.

But in the second half...

He only pitched his six, four, eight ERA because he only pitched eight and a third innings because he was up and down all season long, especially in the second half.

I'm dropping him all the way down to D or F. yeah, I wouldn't do that far because we had no expectations for him, but it wasn't good.

Where do we want to put him?

I'm putting him in your D.

I want to put him in D tier because I think of all the inherited runners that have came across in Evan Sisk's situations watching these games.

So do we want to do D?

Yeah, we can do D. That's fine.

I'm not going to go to bat for Evan Sisk.

Yeah, I'll put him in the highest D.

Isaac Mattson, again, just like Evan Sisk, did not have the greatest year.

We expect eight innings for him in the second half, had a nine ERA.

Overall, this season, it was bad for Isaac Mattson.

He had a five thirty five ERA.

I'm putting him in F tier.

Yeah, it was not good.

Not good at all.

We'll put him ahead of Keller, I guess.

But Isaac Mattson last time was a D tier, so he goes down.

Now a couple of guys.

Actually, Wilber Dotel is next.

Wilber Dotel was ranked C tier.

Where do we want to put Wilber?

I'd keep him in C.

Saw some things I liked, but struggled too much to really say, yes, I want him in the bullpen next year.

But I think he has a future in the bullpen.

Yeah, I'll agree with that one.

I'll keep it simple there.

Khristian Curtis, we got to see the surprise debut in Cleveland.

I'm fine with C tier, C for Curtis.

I would go C or D.

He really struggled.

you could argue D.

I'll put him in low C for now.

I did not expect to see him this year at all.

I did not expect to see him start, and that first start was really special besides the bullpen collapse, which happened pre-trade deadline, but that's a story for another day.

But you could argue D.

Camilo Doval, you and I were on for the emergency podcast.

It was like the one emergency podcast we had before the big stuff.

Camilo Doval was DFA'd, so if you're wondering why he's on this list, it's because he was basically on the team until the final week of the year.

Camilo Doval with the Pittsburgh Pirates had a 3.79 ERA, but only pitched in the nineteen innings.

But it was just the walks.

The walks were horrible.

Twenty walks in that amount of time.

Yeah.

Actually, it was seven walks.

No, fourteen.

Read the wrong number.

Fourteen walks and nineteen innings.

Sorry about that.

Probably C. Yeah, probably low C.

It was about what I expected.

I want to put him in D because he was DFA'd.

Yeah, but was that more of a we're not tendering you when we want to see someone else next year DFA?

You could say that.

I don't know.

I'm fine with D.

I don't think that's a problem.

Let's do D.

We'll put him ahead of Evan Sisk.

Antwone Kelly, I – Yeah, D.

I had high hopes for Antwone Kelly.

I hope he can do what he did in the minor leagues, especially in the past.

This was not a great season for Antwone Kelly.

It was an F-tier rating.

But of, like, the Wilber Dotels and Antwone Kelly's of the world, I think Dotel was better this year.

He showed more.

Kelly was the worst of the group.

yeah so here are the four guys besides doval the pirates acquired via trade we saved him for last year brandon eisert where do you want to put him his

numbers say b at least He actually, he didn't pitch very often, but as I'm going crazy, I feel like he actually had good second half numbers.

Brandon Eisert with a four eighty six ERA with never mind.

I'm going crazy.

I could have sworn I saw something that was like he was pitching really well, had like a sub as a lady was.

OK, following a blocker, but then it was in garbage time.

Yeah, never mind.

I'm sorry.

I take that back.

See your D.

I'll go D for Eisert.

I think people would laugh at us forever if we put him in C. No offense, Eisert.

Poison Ivy time.

Luke Weaver.

Luke Weaver with the Pittsburgh Pirates here.

He ended up being the big splash at the trade deadline.

With the Pittsburgh Pirates, he would pitch in sixteen and a third innings because, of course, when he first got called up, well, brought in, it was during the start of the collapse.

So he never really got to pitch.

But he had a four nine six ERA with the Pirates.

And you see the poison ivy stuff come out.

He had like a zero ERA run with the Mets.

And then, of course, when he touches a black and yellow jersey, he also touched the poison ivy in Miami.

Where do we put Luke Weaver?

He's also here next year, but with the Pirates.

Probably C. Yeah.

He wasn't as good as he...

It wasn't good enough for what we traded for.

I'm in agreeance with that.

This guy surprised the heck out of me.

Lake Bachar, calling him the next Great Lake.

Lake Bachar with the Pirates.

He started eight games with the Buccos, twenty-eight innings.

He opened basically all those games down the stretch after the Ashcraft injury.

He had a two-five-seven ERA.

with the Pirates.

This guy was a dog.

I'll put him in A.

You could argue S.

I'm fine with A tier.

This was, I think, their best trade deadline acquisition based off value alone this year.

I wouldn't even put him higher than B, but I'm fine with A.

He did his job.

He stepped up, and he was able to start those games, give them at least maybe one or two innings every five days.

There was the day he opened a game, then he came out of the bullpen the next day, like recently.

I'm like, wow, he's available, and here he comes.

But yeah, moving on.

Kirby Yates, who's retiring.

This was another one that surprised me.

I didn't expect much out of Yates, just hearing from the Angels fans alone.

He did get injured, but he pitched in fifteen innings, had a one point eight ERA, by the way.

Kirby Yates, pretty good stuff.

I did not expect that from him.

I think he's also an A tier.

I think he's an A. he didn't do anything crazy, like in terms of like just high leverage, but he did exactly what he was asked of.

And I had really good numbers, so A's fine.

And hope he enjoys retirement.

He enjoyed it.

So as we wrap up, there's our tier list.

Just wrapping up quickly, our S tier, basically MVP, Brandon Lowe, Oneil Cruz, Mason Montgomery, Rafael Flores Jr., and Yohan Ramirez.

Who could have guessed we would have Mason Montgomery, Rafael Flores Jr., and Yohan Ramirez ranked higher than Paul Skenes?

If you said they were in S tier at the end of the season, I would have said we made the playoffs.

So many things about this team are like that, but man...

A lot went wrong.

And there are only F tiers.

If you're wondering Mitch Keller stayed in F and Isaac Mattson went down from D to F. So there you guys have it.

That's our final of the end of season tier rankings.

Glad you hope you guys enjoy it.

If you have any comments, leave them down below.

We got a lot of.

Interesting comments last time.

We had someone rank our setups, and we got like a C- or D+.

Well, no one's going to rank this setup.

I'm not in my current abode, so this is not going to be a good setup.

This is an insane asylum setup.

Please tier rank everyone Neil's Wall if you made it this far in the video.

Leave in the comments, Neil's Wall tier ranking.

Where do you rank it, and which pirate do you put it ahead or below?

But that's all we got today.

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