The local ball clubs won 76 games in 2023,

76 games in 24, or as Ben Charrington would put it, more wins.

They're about to go to 75 wins in 2025.

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I'm Dan Kovachvich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

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The Pocoda projections.

I told you they all have cutesy names.

Been that way for a while when it comes to baseball's advanced analytics community.

This comes from baseball prospectus, which has been around forever.

And they put together team projections, and they did so and released them for the National

League Central yesterday.

The pirates have a simulated 75.1 wins and a simulated 86.9 losses.

I'm going to have to assume that the 0.9 loss was like a real rough one in Milwaukee or something, you know, that just counted for an extra something.

Overall, they are seen as being the lowest scoring team in the division at 672 runs.

And they give up the second most runs a little bit surprisingly at 732.

They are projected to have a 5.8% chance of making the playoffs.

5.8.

The divisional order was what I found more interesting than anything.

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