I said Im not worried...If i was worried that would mean I'd first have hope for the upcoming season which I dont...
I agree to an extent that spring training stats dont matter unless they are to one extreme whether it be good or bad. If the Pirates went 18-12 id say its just spring training,12-18 id say the same thing. If they win 1-5 games all spring well its not easy to say hey its just spring because that record would show they dont have anything in the entire organization.If they won 25 or more games then chances are they will be confident and they have to be very solid throughout.
The whole point is, nothing that happens during March should worry or excite you very much regardless of your outlook on the season,
especially as it pertains to something as meaningless as team wins and losses. I have yet to see a single mention of a "losing streak" in
any publication that regularly covers the Pirates. Management has not said anything about it, and nor have any of the players. There's a reason for that: they simply don't care. They don't care because it's not important in the slightest, at least not compared to whether Zach Duke looks as if he can get Major League hitters out on a regular basis ever again, whether Doug Mientkiewicz looks like he can handle positions other than first base, etc. Things like that are far and away the most important thing to come out of spring training. And if it means the Pirates log a horrid win-loss record on their way to finding these things out, what does it matter?
You bring up extremes, but even those can be pretty inconsequential. Remember how AWFUL Gorzelanny was last spring? Then he went out and was our most consistent starting pitcher throughout the year. Remember how great McCutchen looked at the plate, and people were even clamoring for him to be handed the starting center field job in the bigs? Then he went to AA and hit .220 for two months.
If the Pirates don't win a single game for the rest of the Grapefruit League schedule, I wouldn't so much as bat an eye.
