JAL’s Born to Win Morning Links

Born to Win Jimmy Cliff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuoUV-ynVKE

MLB Transactions

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/transactions

2-MLB Trade Rumors-Pirates

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/pittsburgh_pirates/

3 PBC Asylum Recipe Collection

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8jN0zO-DxI0eVkyazRFY2IzLU0&usp=sharing

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wMRQrWaQaLQvSs502k6qTzds_6JOlKjzNeaUNLtNLyc/edit#gid=0

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19zg6X5VUHUBW_0QTsTMLdNcgTYSq-hZIKvzLFmhwPjU/edit#gid=775822168

5 Retrosheet

http://www.retrosheet.org

6 Rumbunter

Pittsburgh Pirates use big 1st inning to defeat Rays

http://rumbunter.com/2017/06/28/pittsburgh-pirates-use-big-inning-to-defeat-rays/

7 Viva El Birdos

Wainwright pitches gem, Cards barely hold on in 4-3 win

https://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2017/6/29/15891948/wainobueno

8 Green Weenie

Bucs Break Out Early & Hold On For 6-2 Win

http://oldbucs.blogspot.com/2017/06/bucs-break-out-early-hold-on-for-6-2-win.html

9 Red Reporter

Reds get strikeout-fueled start from Luis Castillo, beat Brewers late 4-3

https://www.redreporter.com/2017/6/28/15891278/reds-beat-brewers-luis-castillo

10 Bleed Cubbie Blue

Get to know new Cubs catcher Victor Caratini

https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2017/6/28/15887680/get-to-know-new-cubs-catcher-victor-caratini

11 Pirates Breakdown

Trevor Williams should have rotation spot locked down

http://piratesbreakdown.com/2017/06/27/pittsburgh-pirates-wade-leblanc/

12 KDKA

Dunlap: Pirates Need To Jump All In, Or All Out

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/06/28/dunlap-pirates-jump-in-or-out/

13 FanRag

Andrew McCutchen showing he's hardly finished

https://www.fanragsports.com/mlb/pirates/andrew-mccutchen-showing-hes-hardly-finished/

14 For the Win

MLB is making it easier for pro baseball players to get college degrees

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/06/mlb-college-degrees-players-northeastern-mlbpa-agreement

15 Tampa Bay Times

Blake Snell struggles in return as Rays fall to Pirates

http://www.tampabay.com/sports/baseball/rays/blake-snell-struggles-in-return-as-rays-fall-to-pirates/2328829

16 St. Louis Post Dispatch

Quick Hits: Derrick Goold on the Cardinals

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/birdland/quick-hits-derrick-goold-on-the-cardinals/collection_df326c16-dabf-540d-841b-345c71e674fa.html

17 SB Nation   

I watched all 31 stolen bases against Miguel Montero so you don’t have to

https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2017/6/28/15888130/miguel-montero-cubs-dfa-stolen-bases

18 CBS Sports

Kangaroo Court: Passing judgment on the Miguel Montero-Cubs drama

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/kangaroo-court-passing-judgment-on-the-miguel-montero-cubs-drama/

19 Fangraphs

What Can Speed Do?

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/what-can-speed-do/

20 NBC Sports

The Cubs visited the White House. Again.

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2017/06/28/the-cubs-visited-the-white-house-again/

21 Baseball Prospectus

Curses of Confidence, Aging, and Sosa

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=32169

22 Sports on Earth

Four Of A Kind: Ace Club Is Exclusive

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/239071918/mlb-ace-pitchers-kershaw-sale-scherzer-keuchel