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So if the pirates are going to finish around 500 as the Zips forecast has them doing,

is that going to be good enough? No, I don't mean for them. Good morning to you. Good Thursday morning.

I'm Dan Kovachievich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily Shot of Pirates. It comes your way

bright and early every weekday. If you're into football and or hockey, I also offer daily shots of Steelers and Penguins. Those are the other two teams in town that I cover. The full Dan Zimborski projections, the most reliable and respected projections in the industry came out yesterday and had all the details, everything you'd want to know about how Jack Swinsky's going to fare against left-handers in daylight, in a different time zone, and all that other stuff.

But it still adds up to a round of 500 team, maybe a little bit below that.

As such, they're not going to be making any playoffs.

The general math on making the playoffs in the new somewhat expanded format

is that you still got to be around 90 wins. It's not mandatory. There are teams that have

done it with less, but 90 is, if you're there, you're getting're getting in well 500 obviously isn't 90 500 actually is a good few miles below that obviously 81 wins now this past season the the Pirates won 76 games. The season before that, the Pirates won 76 games. Or, as Ben

Charrington famously put it, we're winning more. What they need to do, I think, believe, to justify keeping their jobs in anybody's eyes.

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