JAL’s Coded Languages Morning Links

Coded Languages Hawkwind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAHmXcXk3Sg

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: Future Implications of Acquiring Sean Rodriguez

https://rumbunter.com/2017/08/09/pittsburgh-pirates-future-implications-of-acquiring-sean-rodriguez/

7 Viva El Birdos

Cardinals are feline good after clawing back to an 8-5 victory

https://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2017/8/10/16123100/cardswincatsaregoodnow

8 Green Weenie

Tigers Come to Life Late; Pirates Mauled 10-0

http://oldbucs.blogspot.com/2017/08/bucs-jump-ahead-early-chad-pen-nail-it.html

9 Red Reporter

Tucker Barnhart’s 3-run homer not enough as Reds fall to Padres, 7-3

http://oldbucs.blogspot.com/2017/08/tigers-come-to-life-late-pirates-mauled.html

10 Bleed Cubbie Blue

Giants 3, Cubs 1: Willson Contreras injured in dispiriting loss

https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2017/8/9/16122048/cubs-giants-recap-willson-contreras-injured

11 Pirates Breakdown

Ivan Nova is not fooling anyone, and that is a problem

http://piratesbreakdown.com/2017/08/09/pittsburgh-pirates-ivan-nova-deception/

12 Allied News

EXTRA INNINGS: Another look at 'promising prospects'

http://www.alliednews.com/sports/extra-innings-another-look-at-promising-prospects/article_19caed20-7cf8-11e7-a973-c78dba8b025c.html

13 Detroit Free Press

Detroit Tigers' Justin Verlander nearly no-hits Pittsburgh Pirates

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2017/08/10/justin-verlander-detroit-tigers/554838001/

14 KDKA

Bob Walk Weilding ‘Hex Stick’ To Help Bucs

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/08/09/bob-walk-weilding-hex-stick-helping-pirates/

15 UPROXX

Tim Wakefield Breaks Down Baseball’s Future And That Mysterious Knuckleball

http://uproxx.com/sports/tim-wakefield-boston-red-sox-youth-baseball-knuckleball/

16 St. Louis Post Dispatch

  Hochman: Look what the cat dragged in – hope

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/benjamin-hochman/hochman-look-what-the-cat-dragged-in-hope/article_9300048c-dd56-59a6-ad85-3eaac040ed92.html

17 SB Nation   

More position players are pitching than ever before, and there’s a simple explanation why

https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2017/8/9/16116338/position-players-pitching-history-stats-last-position-player-to-pitch-for-every-team

18 CBS Sports

Wednesday MLB scores, highlights, news, updates: Indians' Allen blows another save

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/wednesday-mlb-scores-highlights-news-updates-indians-allen-blows-another-save/

19 Fangraphs

How Technology Led Josh Donaldson to Change

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/how-technology-led-to-change-with-josh-donaldson/

20 Baseball Prospectus

The Case of the Missing Fireman

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=32480

21 Sports on Earth

DOWN AND TROUT: MIKE NEEDS OCTOBER

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/247339874/mike-trout-angels-playoff-race

Pirates

1. Starling Marte (R) CF

2. Adam Frazier (L) LF

3. Andrew McCutchen (R) DH

4. Josh Bell (S) 1B

5. David Freese (R) 3B

6. Gregory Polanco (L) RF

7. Sean Rodriguez (R) 2B

8. Jordy Mercer (R) SS

9. Chris Stewart (R) C

Tigers

1. Ian Kinsler (R) 2B

2. Mikie Mahtook (R) CF

3. Justin Upton (R) LF

4. Miguel Cabrera (R) 1B

5. Nicholas Castellanos (R) 3B

6. Victor Martinez (S) DH

7. James McCann (R) C

8. Andrew Romine (S) RF

9. Jose Iglesias (R) SS