DK's Daily Shot of Pirates: Should the Pirates re-sign Yoshi Tsutsugo?
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🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football. |
| 0:07.0 | What a fantastic night of football. |
| 0:10.0 | Including 10 Premier League games. |
| 0:13.0 | It doesn't get much better than that. |
| 0:17.0 | And Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match. |
| 0:22.3 | The biggest live games from the biggest leagues all wrapped up. |
| 0:28.0 | It's on Prime. |
| 0:33.4 | Yoshi or not Yoshi. That is the immediate question facing Ben Charrington and the rest of the front office. Good morning to you. Good Monday morning. I'm Dan Kovachvich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. And this is Daily Shot of Pirates with the most regrettably |
| 0:56.0 | cliched intro, I might add. If you're into football and or hockey, I also offer up daily |
| 1:04.7 | shots of Steelers and Penguins, where you found this. There seems to be an increasingly universal sentiment |
| 1:14.2 | that the designated hitter is coming to the National League in 2022. |
| 1:20.1 | There isn't an article, a commentary, or anything coming out of the World Series, |
| 1:26.2 | where most of the baseball media that's still active is assembled, that doesn't presume that. |
| 1:34.0 | It's just supposed to be part of it. |
| 1:35.9 | It might be one of the last pieces put into place in the labor agreement, but it's going to be one of them. |
| 1:43.6 | As such, the pirates aren't an exception in that they're going to need one of these things too. |
| 1:53.6 | And they already had one. |
| 1:58.3 | Yoshi Tsutsugo profiles in every way, shape, and form as a DH. |
| 2:07.7 | When you see a player struggle in the field, there's a reflex to say, well, he should be a DH, |
| 2:13.9 | or trade him to an American League team, when in fact that player almost always isn't |
| 2:21.1 | good enough to be a DH, meaning a good enough hitter. Your DH should be one of your two or |
| 2:28.9 | three best hitters in the lineup. I don't think that's overstating it. |
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