JAL’s What It Takes to Win Morning Links

What It Takes to Win Journey

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

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

Looking at Felipe Rivero’s Other Offering: The Slider

http://rumbunter.com/2017/07/01/looking-felipe-riveros-offering-slider/

7 Viva El Birdos

Game 79 Recap: Leake, Bats Squash Nationals 8-1

https://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2017/6/30/15906904/i-dare-you-to-go-complain-about-the-preview

8 Green Weenie

Pirates Fade Away Against G-Men, Get Rocked 13-5

http://oldbucs.blogspot.com/2017/06/pirates-fade-away-against-g-men-get.html

9 Red Reporter

Scott Feldman flirts with no-hitter, leads Reds past Cubs

https://www.redreporter.com/2017/6/30/15906818/scott-feldman-no-hitter-almost-reds-cubs-score

10 Bleed Cubbie Blue

Former Cubs pitcher Anthony Young dies at 51

https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2017/6/30/15885602/former-cubs-pitcher-anthony-young-dies

11 Pirates Breakdown

Pittsburgh Pirates Wake Up Call-Jameson Taillon Shines as Pirates win series

http://piratesbreakdown.com/2017/06/30/pittsburgh-pirates-wake-call-jameson-taillon/

12 KDKA

Andrew McCutchen, Wife Expecting Their First Child

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/06/30/andrew-mccutchen-wife-expecting-baby/

13 Moultrie Observer

Column: Major league baseball needs higher gear

http://www.moultrieobserver.com/news/ga_fl_news/column-major-league-baseball-needs-higher-gear/article_a5af9b72-5d97-11e7-a9e1-f37a9bd077b2.html

14 Call to the Pen

Colorado Rockies trade deadline target: Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Ivan Nova

http://calltothepen.com/2017/06/30/colorado-rockies-trade-deadline-target-pittsburgh-pirates-pitcher-ivan-nova/

15 San Francisco Chronicle

Giants club Pirates for fourth straight win

http://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Giants-club-Pirates-for-fourth-straight-win-11260446.php

16 St. Louis Post Dispatch

Cardinals make changes at the top

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinals-make-changes-at-the-top/article_7f6d728c-a277-57f3-b9d8-24892011feaf.html

17 SB Nation   

Juiced baseballs even more likely to be responsible for all these homers

https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2017/6/30/15894202/mlb-baseballs-juiced-home-runs-homers-dingers

18 CBS Sports

Keri the 10: Babying pitchers doesn't work, Scherzer vs. Kershaw and more MLB notes

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/keri-the-10-babying-pitchers-doesnt-work-scherzer-vs-kershaw-and-more-mlb-notes/

19 Fangraphs

Technically, Baseball Really Is More Boring

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/technically-baseball-really-is-more-boring/

20 NBC Sports

Video: MLB breaks a 17-year record for most home runs hit in a single month

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2017/06/30/video-mlb-breaks-a-17-year-record-for-most-home-runs-hit-in-a-single-month/

21 Baseball Prospectus

The "If We Could, We Would" All-Stars

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=32187

22 Sports on Earth

MLB's Surprise All-Star One-Timers

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/239662972/unlikely-mlb-all-star-game-players-every-team


Giants Lineup:

1. Denard Span (L) CF

2. Joe Panik (L) 2B

3. Hunter Pence (R) RF

4. Buster Posey (R) C

5. Brandon Belt (L) 1B

6. Brandon Crawford (L) SS

7. Ryder Jones (L) 3B

8. Austin Slater (R) LF

9. Matt Moore (L) P

Pirates Lineup:

1. Josh Harrison (R) 2B

2. Jose Osuna (R) LF

3. Andrew McCutchen (R) CF

4. David Freese (R) 3B

5. Josh Bell (S) 1B

6. Elias Diaz (R) C

7. Gregory Polanco (L) RF

8. Max Moroff (S) SS

9. Chad Kuhl (R) P