Accomplishment
Altoona Curve won the AA Eastern League Championship! For those of you who do not know, the Curve are the Pirates AA minor league affiliate. So, I am excited and I have something to be proud of this year. (Sadly, I even listened to part of the Championship game. Embarrassing I know.) This team had the same core group of players that won the High A Championship last year. High A champs in 2009 and AA champs in 2010. So according to my calculations the Pirates will be WS champions in 2012. It’s science.
Disappointment
On Friday, the Pirates lost their 100th game of the season. Ouch. It was the first time the Pirates have lost 100 games in a season since 2001. A more thorough summary of the season will be written after the commencement of the regular season, but this is a preview: we couldn’t pitch and we couldn’t hit. (The Pirates now have had eight 100 loss seasons in their history, the Orioles have had nine. So let’s keep that in mind...)
Accomplishment/Disappoinment
Jose Bautista hit his 50th home run of the season on Wednesday. (Last night he hit #’s 51 & 52 against the Orioles) As I mentioned before this guy used be the Pirates starting 3rd basemen. For three years we gave Bautista a chance to make it, but he averaged .242/14hr/50rbi. Not the numbers you expect from a corner infielder, so we traded him for Robinzon Díaz. Who? Exactly. Diaz was with the Pirates for less than a year and then we released him. With only 9 games to play, Bautista numbers are .262/52hr/118rbi. (A “Pujols caliber player” by definition) Looks like the joke is on the Buccos…
I forgot to mention this in my post, but the Orioles have not had nine 100 loss seasons. The Saint Louis Browns were the atrocious team that came to Baltimore and became the Orioles in 1954. They had plenty of 100 loss seasons. The actual Baltimore Orioles have had two 100 loss seasons, and our last one was in 1988.
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