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I have seen Polanco make some nice fielding plays. The problem is his arm. Move him to LF?

Tucker coming up could be a Wally Pipp-Lou Gehrig moment. Tucker looks very comfortable in the field, and in his first at bat also stung a ball to left field.

Pirates are at .722, second best in the National League. Big improvement over last year.

When do we get to purchase payoff tickets?

<t>In the moneyball era, many strategic decisions are determined in advance through analytics. The manager's job is still important: 1. Assembling a staff which can teach, coach and improve players; 2. Figuring out when a player's capabilities have fundamentally changed; 3. Adapting strategies to pl...

So, we are off to a pretty good start. I like to measure the season into 10 16 game stretches with 2 extra games. 10 x 10 equals 100.

We had them all the way!

I think we can win 92 games! What happened the prediction thread? I won it in 2013, I believe!

<t>Bullpen is number 3, and I saw that the starting staff was ranked 10th. Overall, that puts us 6th or 7th which is playoff caliber. Suppose that Kang is good at third, that Bell recovers his power or that a Bell-Moran platoon works at first. Suppose that Frazier really is the hitter we think he is...

We trail only the Yankees and the A's.Hope springs eternal!