Thursday, May 25, 2017

JAL’s Strawberry Fields Forever Morning Links

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1- MLB Transactions


2-MLB Trade Rumors-Pirates


3 PBC Asylum Recipe Collection


4 BFFL’s Pirates Stats Spreadsheet and Prediction Contest

First link is to new 2017 sheets but no data yet while second link is to 2016 data



5 Retrosheet


6 Rumbunter


The Pirates Are In A No Win Situation With Andrew McCutchen




7 Viva El Birdos

Leake pitches eight strong innings while offense walks to first in 6-1 win


8 Green Weenie

Heroes Galore In Pirates 10-Inning 12-5 Victory; Fraze and Jose Osuna With Five-Star Performances




9 Red Reporter

Billy Hamilton scores from 1B on a single, runs Reds straight into comeback win over Cleveland


10 Bleed Cubbie Blue

MLB Should Centralize All Game Weather Decisions



11 Pirates Breakdown

Takeaways and Throwaways – Pirates (Finally) Win One in Hotlanta


Column: Andrew McCutchen has officially hit rock bottom


12 Atlanta Journal Constitution

Pirates forge tie in ninth, pile on in 10th to beat Braves


13 ESPN

Pirates icon Willie Stargell's widow raises ire with memorabilia auction


14 National Catholic Register

Faith Not Accidental for Pittsburgh Pirates’ Pitcher


15 McAlester News=Capital

With MLB pace of game, even talks go slowly


16 St. Louis Post Dispatch

Quick Hits: Derrick Goold on the Cardinals



17 SB Nation   

Rob Manfred is talking about MLB expansion into Mexico




18 CBS Sports

Mike Trout has a historically bad supporting cast, probably isn't getting a new one


19 Fangraphs

Baseball’s Toughest (and Easiest) Schedules So Far



20 Fox Sports

The real reason why Brewers’ Eric Thames is getting drug tested more frequently


21 Baseball Prospectus

You Gotta Love a Slugfest


22 Sports on Earth

10 OF MLB'S BIGGEST TEAM STRENGTHS

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/232249776/mlb-teams-biggest-strengths-2017-season

Pirates


1. Adam Frazier (L) CF
2. Josh Harrison (R) LF
3. Josh Bell (S) 1B
4. David Freese (R) 3B
5. Francisco Cervelli (R) C
6. Jose Osuna (R) RF
7. Jordy Mercer (R) SS
8. Gift Ngoepe (R) 2B
9. Ivan Nova (R) P

Braves


1. Ender Inciarte (L) CF
2. Dansby Swanson (R) SS
3. Nick Markakis (L) RF
4. Matt Kemp (R) LF
5. Lane Adams (R) 1B
6. Kurt Suzuki (R) C
7. Rio Ruiz (L) 3B
8. Jace Peterson (L) 2B
9. Bartolo Colon (R) P