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Pittsburgh Pirates Struggle Early in the 2025 Season
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4/5/2025
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00:00
All right, now let's get to the Pittsburgh Pirates.
00:01
They have no shortage of young pitchers.
00:03
We did see that they have called up Thomas Harrington,
00:07
and Harrington, as of right now, 12% owned.
00:10
I think there's gonna be a lot of speculation
00:12
and people grabbing him in fantasy.
00:14
Remember, with Jared Jones down,
00:16
they really don't have a ton of options,
00:17
so you're gonna see him and another player
00:19
we'll talk about later in Bubba Chandler.
00:21
Harrington starts against the Cardinals,
00:23
and then he starts against the Reds,
00:25
who are really struggling to hit.
00:27
Oof, this is a tough one, George.
00:28
I do think the Reds' offense is gonna get going,
00:30
so that scares me a little bit.
00:32
And the other thing that I have to say, George,
00:34
what is going on with the Pirates, man?
00:36
They do not look good at all to start the season.
00:39
I mean, I'm not, look, I have faith in Atlanta.
00:42
I know that they're gonna come back.
00:43
I know the whole AL Central is struggling, too.
00:47
I'm a little worried about the Pirates.
00:49
Their offense does not look good.
00:50
Fundamentally, they don't look good, too,
00:52
making a lot of mistakes, too.
00:54
I definitely thought that the bar was set
00:56
for them to be 500 or better this year,
00:59
but I'm just not feeling it yet.
01:02
That's not, they're not gonna be 500 or better.
01:05
It's one game, watch, obviously,
01:06
the Yankees played them yesterday, watch the game.
01:09
This is not, this is a terrible team.
01:10
Other than Skeens, I mean, my God.
01:12
And Bubba Chandler, by the way,
01:13
I think he'll be great, too, when he comes up.
01:14
This is a terrible team.
01:15
They made so many mistakes.
01:16
They're booting the ball around here,
01:18
not throwing it to the right base.
01:19
It was just like, it was like a minor league team.
01:21
It's like a team that's still learning how to play,
01:22
which, by the way, is not surprising.
01:24
I got a couple of plays I never heard of.
01:25
Canario, and I was like, what is going on here?
01:28
They were so disappointing that you had Skeens,
01:31
this is before Jones got hurt.
01:32
You had Skeens, Jones, and Chandler, right?
01:35
And theoretically, no one can match that.
01:37
The top three is like, wow, went all healthy here,
01:41
and they did nothing else.
01:42
You didn't add any offense.
01:43
The fans yesterday, after the first inning,
01:46
were chanting, sell the team.
01:48
I mean, my God, I think things are gonna get ugly there.
01:51
I mean, just ugly in Pittsburgh, which is a shame.
01:53
It's a beautiful ballpark, probably my favorite ballpark
01:56
of all the ones I've been to here, beautiful.
01:58
I think they could, if they would have added a bat or two,
02:00
honestly, I don't know if they were gonna compete
02:02
for a playoff spot or to win the division,
02:04
but if they would have added a bat or two,
02:06
I think they could have been a fun team to watch here,
02:08
a team like, oh, if this goes right,
02:10
maybe they can compete for a wild card,
02:11
or in a week, National League Central will be there.
02:14
But I think this is a disaster season for Pittsburgh.
02:17
Yeah, it's really strange for me too,
02:19
because as you said, they have this young pitching staff,
02:23
and look, it's a little bit of apples and oranges
02:25
with no salary cap in baseball.
02:27
And I'm not here to tell anybody how to spend their money.
02:29
I know it's very different in baseball.
02:31
But George, it's like, schemes cannot alone win for you,
02:37
like Jaden Daniels can in Washington.
02:40
But what I'm saying is, you kind of have that guy.
02:44
How do you not put your foot on the pedal here
02:47
and put some players around this guy years ago,
02:51
like Washington did when they had Steven Strasburg?
02:55
If it's not winning time now, when is it winning time?
02:59
Pittsburgh, I mean, Tommy Pham was like the only guy
03:01
they signed up, really, really strange.
03:04
And again, every year is not the year to go out
03:07
and sign guys to three years, 50.
03:09
I mean, Pittsburgh is not gonna sign someone
03:11
for 200 million, okay, or even 100.
03:13
So I don't know when that year is to do a two year,
03:16
30 million, or a four year, 50 million.
03:18
I don't know when it is, but it felt like this was the year
03:22
to give it a shot, and they didn't.
03:25
Watching them in person, you saw that game last night,
03:28
I don't know, I'm just not seeing it at all.
03:32
Very, very disappointing start for them.
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