Wednesday, August 29, 2018

JAL’s Towing the Line Morning Links

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Towing the Line Ben Howard


1 MLB Transactions



2-MLB Trade Rumors-Pirates



3 Baseball Reference


4 Retrosheet


5 Rumbunter


Pittsburgh Pirates: Kevin Kramer Should Be Promoted




6 Green Weenie


Pirates Continue To Sputter In 5-2 Loss to Redbirds




7 Pirates Breakdown

It's not too early to worry about Chris Archer



8 Point of Pittsburgh

Adam Frazier Is Doing What Josh Bell Isn’t: Pulling Fly Balls


9 St, Louis Post-Dispatch

Flaherty keeps rolling as Cardinals beat Pirates


10 Beyond the Box Score</b>

The Pirates have formed quite the duo behind the plate



11 FiveThirtyEight

We Checked 50 Years Of Sports History To Find The Team That Stands Out The Least



12 SB Nation

The Pirates lost a 15-inning game in the second-most embarrassing way possible



13 CBS Sports

> Here's why the Cubs are probably the biggest winners of the July and August trade deadlines


14 Fangraphs

Strength of Schedule and the Pennant Races



15 Baseball Prospectus</b>

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Short Relief: Signatures, Speech, and Spontaneous Standing



16 Blog Predictions


17 Previous Game Box Score

http://stats.washingtonpost.com/mlb/boxscore.asp?final=true&gamecode=380828124


Pittsburgh Pirates 64-68  at St. Louis Cardinals 74-58   8:15 PM EDT


Gametime Forecast: 75°F • Mostly Cloudy • 7% PoP




Pirates
Trevor Williams (R)    10-9  3.44 ERA



Cardinals
Miles Mikolas (R)       13-3   2.94 ERA  



Pirates

1. Starling Marte (R) CF
2. Adam Frazier (L) 2B
3. Gregory Polanco (L) RF
4. Francisco Cervelli (R) C
5. Corey Dickerson (L) LF
6. Josh Bell (S) 1B
7. Colin Moran (L) 3B
8. Jordy Mercer (R) SS
9. Trevor Williams (R) P

Cardinals

1. Matt Carpenter (L) 1B
2. Yadier Molina (R) C
3. Jose Martinez (R) RF
4. Tyler O'Neill (R) LF
5. Paul DeJong (R) SS
6. Greg Garcia (L) 2B
7. Harrison Bader (R) CF
8. Yairo Munoz (R) 3B
9. Miles Mikolas (R) P