JAL’s Why Do Fools Fall in Love Morning Links

 

Why Do Fools Fall in Love Frankie Lymon and,The Teenagers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sAHiR0rkJg

1 MLB Transactions

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

2-MLB Trade Rumors-Pirates

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

3 Baseball Reference

https://www.baseball-reference.com

4 Retrosheet

http://www.retrosheet.org

5 Rumbunter

Pittsburgh Pirates Rumors: Is Shane Baz Getting Traded?

https://rumbunter.com/2018/08/12/pittsburgh-pirates-rumors-is-shane-baz-getting-traded/

6 Point of Pittsburgh

Have the Pirates’ Team-Friendly Extensions Been Worth It?

http://www.thepointofpittsburgh.com/spend-nutting-win-nutting-not-so-fast-the-correlation-between-spending-and-value/

7 Pirates Breakdown

Looking at Richard Rodriguez's Workload

http://www.thepointofpittsburgh.com/have-the-pirates-team-friendly-extensions-been-worth-it/

8 NY Post

Creative Jay Bruce trades that could solve multiple Mets problems

https://nypost.com/2018/08/13/creative-jay-bruce-trades-that-could-solve-multiple-mets-problems/

9 NYU News

How to Shorten the Length of MLB Games—and Make Them More Competitive? Researchers Have an “Out” Strategy

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2018/august/how-to-shorten-the-length-of-mlb-games-and-make-them-more-compet.html

10 Armchair All Americans</b>

How will the Pittsburgh Pirates help Chris Archer?

https://armchairallamericans.com/how-will-pittsburgh-pirates-help-chris-archer/

11 Green Weenie

Monday: About That Rest Day...

https://oldbucs.blogspot.com/2018/08/monday-about-that-rest-day.html

12 SB Nation

Even the Angels used a position player to pitch

https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2018/8/13/17683674/angels-used-a-position-player-to-pitch

13 CBS Sports

> MLB Power Rankings: Playoff picture in the National League providing everything but clarity

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-power-rankings-playoff-picture-in-the-national-league-providing-everything-but-clarity/

14 Fangraphs

The Hoffman Generation

https://www.fangraphs.com/tht/the-hoffman-generation/

15 Baseball Prospectus</b>

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Short Relief: Bound to Age

https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/41961/short-relief-bad-days-bad-luck

16 Blog Predictions

http://pbc-asylum.blogspot.com/2018/03/2018-pbc-asylum-blog-prediction-contest.html’

17 Previous Game Box Score

http://stats.washingtonpost.com/mlb/boxscore.asp?final=true&gamecode=380811126

18 Results of Foo’s Post Trades Survey

https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-HZPGPJCTL/

Pittsburgh Pirates 61-58  at Minnesota Twins  54-63  8:10 PM EDT

Pirates

Jameson Taillon (R)  9-8  3.63 ERA                                                                  

Twins

Jake Odorizzi (R)  4-7  4.50 ERA 

Pirates

1. Corey Dickerson (L) LF

2. Starling Marte (R) CF

3. Gregory Polanco (L) RF

4. David Freese (R) 3B

5. Josh Bell (S) 1B

6. Francisco Cervelli (R) C

7. Colin Moran (L) DH

8. Josh Harrison (R) 2B

9. Jordy Mercer (R) SS

Twins

1. Joe Mauer (L) 1B

2. Eddie Rosario (L) RF

3. Jorge Polanco (S) SS

4. Miguel Sano (R) 3B

5. Max Kepler (L) CF

6. Logan Forsythe (R) 2B

7. Jake Cave (L) LF

8. Mitch Garver (R) C

9. Tyler Austin (R) DH