Saturday, March 17, 2018

JAL’s Peace Frog Morning Links

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Peace Frog The Doors


MLB Transactions



2-MLB Trade Rumors-Pirates



3 Baseball Reference


4 Retrosheet


5 Rumbunter


Solving the Pittsburgh Pirates Power Problem





6 Viva El Birdos</b>

Sizing up the competition



7 Green Weenie


3/16: Honus Quits; Look Into the Crystal Ball; HBD Lloyd, Patsy & Abraham; RIP Pie



8 Bleed Cubbie Blue

Who will get Justin Grimm’s Cubs bullpen spot?



9 Pirates Breakdown

Pittsburgh Pirates Wake Up Call: The Pittsburgh Kid Has Some Opinions



10 The Point of Pittsburgh

Pitch Framing Can Improve Value Of Pirates’ Pitchers


11 KDKA</b>

Pirates’ Players Well Aware Of Disgruntled Fan Base, Hoping To Prove Them Wrong




12 Bradenton Herald

Behind the numbers: Stories of how these Pittsburgh Pirates got their jersey number





13 FanRag

Phillies swap Pedro Florimon for Eliezer Alvarez



14 St. Louis Post Dispatch</b>

  No Lynn? No Arrieta? No problem for Cards, with Flaherty emerging



15 SB Nation

These are the best players who spent their careers on terrible teams



16 CBS Sports

Astros lock up Jose Altuve, but here's why it'll be much harder to keep Carlos Correa



17 Fangraphs

Eugenio Suarez and the Free-Agent Market


18 Baseball Prospectus</b>

Prospectus Feature: A Rotation Spot Made For Two



19 National Pastime Museum

GRAHAM MCNAMEE, BASEBALL’S FIRST RADIO STAR



20 CBS Sports

2018 MLB Spring Training: Previews, depth charts and schedules for all 30 teams


21 Blog Prediction Contest



Twins vs Pirates 1:05 PM


Twins
Phil Hughes (R)    

Pirates
Chad Kuhl (R)

Twins

1. Robbie Grossman (S) RF
2. Jorge Polanco (S) SS
3. Miguel Sano (R) 3B
4. Brock Stassi (L) 1B
5. Mitch Garver (R) C
6. LaMonte Wade (L) CF
7. Chris Heisey (R) DH
8. Nick Gordon (L) 2B
9. Nick Buss (L) LF


Pirates

1. Adam Frazier (L) 2B
2. Francisco Cervelli (R) C
3. David Freese (R) 3B
4. Jose Osuna (R) 1B
5. Sean Rodriguez (R) SS
6. Jordan Luplow (R) LF
7. Bryce Brentz (R) RF
8. Todd Cunningham (S) CF
9. Chad Kuhl (R) P

5
Final 1 2 3   4 5 6   7 8 9   R H E
Minnesota0 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 0 5104
Pittsburgh1 0 2 9 0 1 0 0 x 13130
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  W: C. Kuhl (1-2)   L: P. Hughes (1-1)
1:05 PM ET, March 17, 2018
LECOM Park, Bradenton, Florida  Attendance: 5,868

Minnesota Twins
Player AB R H RBI TB AVG OBP SLG
R. Grossman, RF 3 0 2 1 2 .229 .308 .314
  N. Buss, RF 2 0 0 0 0 .240 .296 .320
J. Polanco, SS 3 0 1 1 1 .265 .286 .412
  G. Petit, SS 2 0 1 0 1 .167 .212 .300
M. Sanó, 3B 3 0 0 0 0 .269 .387 .654
  T. Featherston, 3B 2 0 0 0 0 .231 .231 .423
B. Stassi, 1B 3 0 1 0 1 .429 .500 .476
  W. Astudillo, C 2 1 1 0 2 .188 .222 .250
M. Garver, C 3 0 1 0 1 .130 .286 .261
  L. Michael, CF 1 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
J. Cave, CF 3 0 0 0 0 .136 .269 .182
  L. Díaz, 1B 1 0 1 1 2 .333 .333 .667
C. Heisey, DH 3 1 1 0 1 .167 .257 .200
  Z. Wiel, PH-DH 0 0 0 0 0 - 1.000 -
N. Gordon, 2B 3 1 1 0 3 .409 .435 .636
  T. Blankenhorn, 2B 0 0 0 1 0 .000 .000 .000
L. Wade, LF 1 1 0 1 0 .304 .469 .391
  J. Ramsey, LF 1 0 0 0 0 .091 .167 .273
  P. Hughes, P 0 0 0 0 0 - - -
  A. Busenitz, P 0 0 0 0 0 - - -
  A. Mciver, P 0 0 0 0 0 - - -
  J. Reed, P 0 0 0 0 0 - - -
  C. Davis, P 0 0 0 0 0 - - -
Totals 36 5 10 5 14 - - -
 
Pittsburgh Pirates
Player AB R H RBI TB AVG OBP SLG
A. Frazier, 2B 4 2 1 1 2 .387 .472 .677
  C. Bostick, PH-2B 1 0 0 0 0 .133 .212 .267
F. Cervelli, C 3 2 2 1 5 .400 .520 .850
  J. Stallings, C 1 0 1 0 1 .357 .471 .500
D. Freese, 3B 4 1 1 2 2 .238 .292 .476
  E. Weiss, 3B 1 0 0 0 0 .111 .105 .167
J. Osuna, 1B 4 1 2 3 2 .355 .400 .677
  E. Wood, 1B 1 0 0 0 0 .348 .423 .609
S. Rodríguez, SS 3 3 2 1 5 .300 .344 .733
  M. Moroff, SS 1 0 0 0 0 .250 .308 .500
J. Luplow, LF 4 1 2 3 6 .200 .188 .533
  E. Escobar, LF 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .333 .000
B. Brentz, RF 4 0 1 1 1 .229 .325 .314
  C. Sharpe, RF 1 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
T. Cunningham, CF 3 1 1 0 1 .185 .233 .222
  E. Santana, P 0 0 0 0 0 - - -
  L. Sendelbach, P 0 0 0 0 0 - - -
  A. Valerio, PH 1 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
  T. Jones, P 0 0 0 0 0 - - -
C. Kuhl, P 0 2 0 0 0 .500 .667 .500
  B. McKinney, P 0 0 0 0 0 - - -
  R. Lavarnway, PH 1 0 0 0 0 .294 .333 .647
  K. Siegrist, P 0 0 0 0 0 - - -
  P. Reyes, PH-CF 2 0 0 0 0 .211 .286 .368
Totals 39 13 13 12 25 - - -
 
2B: Min 2, W. Astudillo (1), L. Díaz (1). Pit 3, A. Frazier (4), D. Freese (2), J. Luplow (1).
3B: Min 1, N. Gordon (2). 
HR: Pit 3, F. Cervelli (2), S. Rodríguez (4), J. Luplow (3).
SF: Min 2, T. Blankenhorn (1), L. Wade (1). Pit 0,
SH: Min 0,  Pit 1, C. Kuhl (1).
 
Minnesota Twins
Player IP H R ER BB K ERA
P. Hughes, (L 1-1)3.1 895137.71
A. Busenitz0.2 333118.22
A. Mciver1.0 000110.00
J. Reed1.2 211121.50
C. Davis1.1 000120.00
 
Pittsburgh Pirates
Player IP H R ER BB K ERA
C. Kuhl, (W 1-2)4.1 5331211.45
B. McKinney0.2 000004.26
K. Siegrist1.0 200020.00
E. Santana1.2 222124.32
L. Sendelbach0.1 000010.00
T. Jones1.0 100000.00
 
Errors: Min 4, M. Garver (1), J. Polanco (7), M. Sanó (2), T. Blankenhorn (1). 
Wild Pitches: Min 3, P. Hughes, J. Reed, C. Davis. Pit 1, E. Santana.
 
Time: 3:21
Attendance - 5,868