DK's Daily Shot of Pirates: Why tiptoe when assessing Oneil Cruz?

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4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

When people evaluate Pittsburgh Pirates prospect Oneil Cruz, there's always a glowing review. With that also comes an accompanying asterisk which begs the question, why? Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's Daily Shots of Steelers, Penguins and Pirates -- three separate podcasts -- every weekday morning on the DK Pittsburgh Sports podcasting network, available on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/dkpghsports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.4	O'Neill Cruz is an otherworldly being, or he is akin to an otherworldly being,
0:47.8	according to ESPN's Kylie McDaniel, who then proceeded to rate him the number 13 prospect in all of baseball.
0:58.3	Hmm, good morning to you. Good Wednesday morning. I'm Dan Kovachvich of the K. Pittsburgh
1:02.3	Sports. This is Daily Shot of Pirates. It comes your way bright and early every weekday.
1:06.9	If you're into football and or hockey, I also offer up daily shots of Steelers and Penguins
1:12.2	where you've found this.
1:14.6	Far be it for me to criticize the work that McDaniel of ESPN does in his annual prospect
1:24.2	rankings.
1:24.7	I can't even wrap my head around the amount of time, the amount of detail
1:30.6	that has to go into something like that. I did the Pirates own top 30 prospects for baseball
1:38.4	America a few years back. I mean, it was a crusher. I don't know where people find the time to do something like this.
1:48.4	That said, his review of Cruz was so glowing and so hilariously, I mean this in a good way,
2:00.8	it was legitimately funny, over the top,
2:04.0	that he even joked about the Cruz component of his rankings in his tweet to promote the article.
2:14.6	Cruz was the one guy he mentioned because he glowed the way he did. He listed Cruz as
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