JAL’s Try Too Hard Morning Links

Try Too Hard  Dave Clark Five

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

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 Green Weenie

8/15 Through the 1930’s: Carey Brought Up; Little Poison 22-Gamer; Game Stories; HBD Doggie, Bernie, Lew & Red

https://oldbucs.blogspot.com/2019/08/815-through-1930s-carey-brought-up.html

6 Rumbunter

Pittsburgh Pirates: Three Takeaways From Series Win In Anaheim

https://rumbunter.com/2019/08/15/pittsburgh-pirates-other-takeaways-from-series-win-in-anaheim/

7 Point of Pittsburgh

Even In Today’s Game, Tallstop Oneil Cruz Would Be An Anomaly

http://www.thepointofpittsburgh.com/even-in-todays-game-tallstop-oneil-cruz-would-be-an-anomaly/

8 Call to the Pen

Baseball America

https://calltothepen.com/2019/08/15/pittsburgh-pirates-need-sign-top-rotation-starter-offseason/

    

9 MLB</b>

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Postseason urgency rankings for 15 clubs

https://www.mlb.com/news/2019-playoff-urgency-index

 <b>10 Sports Illustrated

> Grading Bryce Harper and Manny Machado in the First Season of Their Mega-Deals

https://www.si.com/mlb/2019/08/12/bryce-harper-manny-machado-contracts-phillies-padres

11 CBS Sports

MLB Prospect Watch: Mitch Keller and three other up-and-comers that could get the call in September

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-prospect-watch-mitch-keller-and-three-other-up-and-comers-that-could-get-the-call-in-september/

12 Fangraphs

The Tigers Might Be Historically Bad

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-tigers-might-be-historically-bad/

13 Baseball Prospectus</b>

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Banjo Hitter: Luis Arraez, Line-Drive Machine

https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/52423/banjo-hitter-luis-arraez-line-drive-machine/

14 The Blog Contest

http://pbc-asylum.blogspot.com/2019/03/2019-pbc-asylum-prediction-contest.html

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Cubs

August, 16

7:05pm

Pirates

Kyle Hendricks (R)

Joe Musgrove (R)

1. Jason Heyward (L) CF

2. Nicholas Castellanos (R) RF

3. Kris Bryant (R) 3B

4. Anthony Rizzo (L) 1B

5. Javier Baez (R) SS

6. Kyle Schwarber (L) LF

7. Jonathan Lucroy (R) C

8. Kyle Hendricks (R) P

9. Tony Kemp (L) 2B

1. Adam Frazier (L) 2B

2. Bryan Reynolds (S) LF

3. Starling Marte (R) CF

4. Josh Bell (S) 1B

5. Colin Moran (L) 3B

6. Melky Cabrera (S) RF

7. Kevin Newman (R) SS

8. Jacob Stallings (R) C

9. Joe Musgrove (R) P