Ladies and Gents, Your 2007 Pittsburgh Pirates

by psk984 on Mar 21, 2007 12:22 PM EDT

As previewed by...NFL guy Peter King. Unless there's another Peter King hanging around SI (which I doubt).

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/specials/spring_training/2007/previews/pirates.html

Well, Peter, you've proven to be one of the more insipid national writers when you're covering your specialty. Thank the gods an editor thought you'd do a fine job covering baseball, especially a team you don't know much about. The rest of the rotation (after Duke) is a mess? Let me introduce you to a sparkplug named Ian Snell.

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Jackassery

That means infield defense is at a premium and the Pirates are taking a big risk by moving batting champion Freddy Sanchez from third base to second. According to Baseball Prospectus's fielding runs statistic, Sanchez has saved 21 more runs per 162 games than an average third baseman but has been 13 runs worse per 162 games than average when playing second, where he played 58 games in 2005. That isn't a price worth paying just to get a hitter such as Jose Bautista (.235 in '06) into the lineup.

Go ahead and paint it with that brush, King. Don't mention that Castillo was God awful at second last year...

by bryanzane on Mar 21, 2007 1:33 PM EDT reply actions

some love for Paulino

on mlb.com

They rank the top fantasy catchers for 2007 and paulino sits at 17th. The ranking doesn't seem that great, but in the write-up the guy predicts another .300 average and double-digit home runs.

...I'd be content with that production

by The New Guy on Mar 22, 2007 1:21 PM EDT reply actions

Pirates record by August 47-74

The always-entertaining coolstandings.com has been playing out the 2007 season using 2006 stats. And no division was more shocking than the AL East, where the Red Sox started out (better sit down for this) 91-24 -- a 128-win pace -- which included one 30-game stretch in which they went 29-1. Feel free to check this out for yourself at http://www.coolstandings.com/baseball_standings.asp?sn=2007F1&i=1

by long4willie on Mar 22, 2007 7:28 PM EDT reply actions