More or less a lot of this actually happened. I was just a regular yinzer, waiting for the Buc’s to finally advance past the first or second round of the playoffs. I felt like this was our year, it was a warm and beautiful september. The Pirates had recorded the second best record in all of baseball. The top three records in all of baseball all occurred in the Pirates division: the NL Central. The only problem is that we were going against the hottest pitcher in baseball Jake Arrieta, with PED speculation circulating all over the place he still managed the best second half of a season ever recorded by a pitcher. I keep using words like we and our when describing what the Buccos were doing because the Yinzer fanbase was equally a part of everything the Pirates were doing this year.
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They started winning games early hanging in the toughest division in baseball. They had some obvious weaknesses like their defense. Despite leading the league assists the outfield still sucked at feilding. Plus the Pedro “The Bull” Alveraz had a surprisingly good offensive season, but he still couldn't play the field to save his life. Luckily the pitching was fantastic all year lead by ace Gerrit Cole. Francisco Liriano and Aj Burnett also had very strong years. The offense wasn’t to bad either lead by a young outfield of solid hitters and former MVP Andrew Mccutchen. The Pirates had made some genius moves this year to help them get the second best record in baseball. They acquired pitcher J.A Happ who helped the heavily down the road in the season. They also added Michael Morse who hit over .300 with the team. Reliever Jokiam Soria was another addition that proved to valuable. These additions to what was already in place combined with strong coaching from Clint Hurdle made more a great Bucco regular
They started winning games early hanging in the toughest division in baseball. They had some obvious weaknesses like their defense. Despite leading the league assists the outfield still sucked at feilding. Plus the Pedro “The Bull” Alveraz had a surprisingly good offensive season, but he still couldn't play the field to save his life. Luckily the pitching was fantastic all year lead by ace Gerrit Cole. Francisco Liriano and Aj Burnett also had very strong years. The offense wasn’t to bad either lead by a young outfield of solid hitters and former MVP Andrew Mccutchen. The Pirates had made some genius moves this year to help them get the second best record in baseball. They acquired pitcher J.A Happ who helped the heavily down the road in the season. They also added Michael Morse who hit over .300 with the team. Reliever Jokiam Soria was another addition that proved to valuable. These additions to what was already in place combined with strong coaching from Clint Hurdle made more a great Bucco regular