OnlyBucs

Horrible call. Clearly strike three gets called ball four. I don't like the idea of robot umps, but that's a call you cannot miss if you're an MLB umpire.

Brewers and Cardinals have already lost today. Cards are in free fall. 2-8 in their last ten, and have lost five in a row. I'm crying...

<t>0F594F5B544E5E55584F7D5A505C5451135E3D0 wrote: I'm just thinking out loud about Davis and Rodriguez. Both profile as well-above average bats, but at what position? I know some don't like the idea of a good-hitting catcher or shortstop or whatever. But, there's always been an understanding that pr...

Struck out the side, and one of the singles probably should have been a double play. The Swanson's single just found a hole. Wasn't hit all that hard. Castro, on the other hand, hit a rope to the third baseman to end the top of the first.

Santana with a two-run bomb makes it 3-0!

446964757263743437060 wrote: 1-0 on Cutch's 2,001st hit. 


And his 296th career homer. Four away from 300.

Cutch with a leadoff jack!

<t>6D3B2D39362C3C373A2D1F38323E3633713C5F0 wrote: I'm just thinking out loud about Davis and Rodriguez. Both profile as well-above average bats, but at what position? I know some don't like the idea of a good-hitting catcher or shortstop or whatever. But, there's always been an understanding that pr...

<t>I'm just thinking out loud about Davis and Rodriguez. Both profile as well-above average bats, but at what position? I know some don't like the idea of a good-hitting catcher or shortstop or whatever. But, there's always been an understanding that premium defensive positions allow for a certain d...

A lot of it is trying to maximize control of peak years. Another product of the Pirates penny-pinching ways couples with the economic disparity inherent in MLB.