OnlyBucs

<t>I hope the best for Gage with the surgery and finding the funds to pay. I wonder how this is discussed in the signing process. Certainly, most of these guys can stay under their parents health plans while they are in the minors and the team is going to cover surgeries related to baseball injuries...

Just keep winning. This team is scrappy. Taillon didn't look great but 5 2/3 with 2 runs isn't bad. Bullpen has been pretty good lately.

That was a terrible at bat by Polanco. He was in the driver's seat and got blown away.

A deserved standing O for Cutch. He tries too hard and strikes out twice but squeezes one hit between short and third for 1-4. Hansen gets 2 hits but makes a crucial error and the Pirates win 5-3.

I spent a few days in Louisville in late October of last year and did a bourbon tour. I had a blast and got some great bourbon.

They were down 4 runs yesterday and today and won both games. They just keep bouncing back.

<t>As I watched yesterday and got a close up of Cervelli, I thought he looked noticeably more fit in his face and body. I hope that is a piece of his hitting because I would think that would make this more sustainable. I haven't seen any articles on it so maybe I didn't see what I thought I saw but ...

<t>Morton was tantalizing because you could see he had good stuff but consistently struggled. He went to the Phillies and did nothing there but get hurt. I view him a little like Jose Bautista. It sucks that he seems to be blossoming elsewhere but I am not blaming the Pirates too much for that. Also...

With the Cubs, Cards and Brewers in our division do you think that 85 wins guarantees the Pirates to be at least third in the division?

<t>It's funny that I hope Cutch does well and would enjoy seeing him do well but am much more ambivalent for Cole or even the opposite. It isn't really surprising me that Cole is having success. I know Pirates Prospects has written a piece about Cole and Morton throwing more breaking balls and that ...