The Official 2006 Pittsburgh Pirates Thread

[mjb2124]

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7-0 LA. Umm, really not much I can think of to say. I think we might be in for a year very similar to last year.

[Karlos05]

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Just walked in it was 7-0 and after the first 2 batters I see it's 7-1 with runners in scoring position.


EDIT: Going to edit this last line and hope no one saw it.

[Karlos05]

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Pirates scratch across a few to make it 7-3. Jose Castillo grounds out with the bases loaded though to prevent any big damage.

Sigh.

[LetsGoPitt]

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Barf...this team is painful to watch. I don't know what it is, but anyone who comes to the Pirates takes stupid pills or something.

If Cota starts tomorrow, I'm going to drive to PNC Park and throttle Tracy. I know Doumit looked bad in his last game, but he's a young player. With Cota, we already know what we're going to get with him (very little).

[Karlos05]

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Most of Ryan Doumit's catching for the near future will happen in the bullpen.

Pirates manager Jim Tracy made clear yesterday he was not satisfied with Doumit's defense and, as a result, plans to start Humberto Cota more often than not. Cota has started five of the first eight games, including the past three.

GAG.


I hope you gassed up tonight LGP, it's a long trip from NYC to PNC.

[mjb2124]

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Most of Ryan Doumit's catching for the near future will happen in the bullpen.

Pirates manager Jim Tracy made clear yesterday he was not satisfied with Doumit's defense and, as a result, plans to start Humberto Cota more often than not. Cota has started five of the first eight games, including the past three.

This is all just a really bad dream, right? Tracy can't be this bad. He can't possibly want Cota to start because of better defense. He must've had blinders on when Doumit successfully blocked 8 pitches in the dirt by Santos. His defense kept the Pirates in that game.

Cota has also given up 6 stolen bases so far out of 7 attempts. Doumit 0 (1 attempt, 1 guy got gunned down).

[LetsGoPitt]

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It probably has to do with Doumit coming in and having the passed ball and wild pitch in that awful inning against Cincy.

Of course, that had nothing to do with Doumit coming in cold off of the bench and not having any real pitches to warm up on.

[BatsareBugs]

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Just thought I'd like to chime in here, but it's good to see Ollie back with the jersey number that he had when he first broke into the league.

[Karlos05]

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Bang the Gong. We won again!!



Doumit needs to be starting almost everyday. Craig also should be playing more often. Tough to find him a place but he really should be.

[pncbucs]

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this is how the pirates need to play games the rest of the year to pose any kind of semblance to a real baseball team. although they got behind early again because of their pitching, they battled back and didn't give up. execution was key. as my man bob walk said, when you have a runner on third with less than two outs, he has to score by any means necessary.

where is our starting pitching? this is starting to get rediculous. its just been bad start after bad start now for almost the first 2 times through. hopefully maholm can show something tomorrow.

gonzalez looked fantastic in his fifth major league save. im not sure that he even threw 10 pitches. this was so refreshing after seeing joe table's antics for 2 years. i really hope gonzo pans out.

i think we'll still come around if our pitching gets it together soon. we need to win tomorrow and start to slowly win series'. win 2 out of 3, then 4 out of 7, 6 out of 10, and start to climb back toward .500. i just can't believe that this team is really as bad as we've seen them in the first 9 games.

[BatsareBugs]

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Ollie around 89-90 MPH so far. Already gave up a HR to JJ Hardy because his control isn't good enough and he isn't throwing hard enough to get anything past anyone.

I don't get it. I'm so frustrated with Ollie and the coaching staff (this year and last). Why try to change a guy who dominated just for an extra
few innings of work? That is why they changed him. They didn't want him to have thrown 110 pitches by the 5th inning (although he typically dominated those 5 innings). Instead they get a guy who hasn't thrown that many pitches, but doesn't have dominating stuff anymore.

That was his problem in 2003. Greg Booker, the Padres pitching coach at the time, tried tinkering with Oliver Perez's approach, delivery, and focus that season to throwing strikes and Oliver was trying to hard to do that, missing on location more often than in 2002 and his stuff looked really bad. IMO he should be left doing what he does best and he'll end up figuring it out. He's still only 24. When he's got it going he's hitting 96-97 on the fastball with a slider that doesn't matter where it's located... but once he starts focusing on locating his pitches and thinking about his pitch count that's when he gets into trouble. It has a lot to do with his mentality and that's why right now I really don't consider him to be an ace, he has the stuff but he doesn't have it upstairs yet.

[Karlos05]

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GONG!



Craig has earned himself playing time but I don't know who they're going to sit. Freddy is on fire and Jack is back to his 2004 form so far. Even Duffy was hitting. A very good day at the plate.

[BatsareBugs]

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Craig Wilson is back to his old hairdo? I can't really tell on the highlights of the agme.

[Karlos05]

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Sorta. It's on the long side but not as long as it was 2 years ago. A little more time and he should get there.

[BatsareBugs]

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Sorta. It's on the long side but not as long as it was 2 years ago. A little more time and he should get there.

I thought so, thanks for confirming it.

I'm pretty sure FBL owners will start snatching this guy up pretty soon.