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There can't be a griislier memory of the 2021 season than Colin Moran being waved home and thrown out by like 30 feet.

And yet there's something about firing Joey Cora that just doesn't feel right. Good morning to you.

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Cora was fired over the weekend. They use all different kinds of terminology for this sort of thing.

That's pretty much standard fare across the corporate world. He was fired. And he was fired, as Ben Charrington fairly noted, in the press

release, early enough in the offseason so that he could ideally pick up work elsewhere.

Joey Cora, good guy, good citizen, good infield coach.

And that's the part that you don't see.

What you do see with a third base coach and the way almost everyone evaluates a third base coach is whether or not runners get thrown out at home.

This season in 2021, the Pirates were thrown out at home 19 times, third most, in all of Major League Baseball.

And that's like completely crazy when you consider they didn't get people on the bases very often, you know?

The ultimate sign of a lousy offense is not getting people on the base paths.

Never mind how many of them you get thrown out at home.

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