Hey guys, welcome the double shot of pirates presented by our friends at the North Short Tavern.

He's Chris Halleck. I'm Dan Kovachvich. We're from TK. Pittsburgh Sports. The roster is set.

Yeah.

And I really had fully expected that the roster would take, you know, a couple days.

You usually see the team, you know, go through its motion,, motion, especially with the bullpen over the last

couple days. Nope. Nothing of the kind. It's all set. Is there any one thing, a bunch of things,

just one thing that jumped out at you? Well, I think it was just, for me, it was not something that happened like today was I think a couple

days ago when Carmen Mijinsky was like named the fifth starter that that kind of be the third

starter right right he will technically be the third starter but he's the last guy to earn a spot in the rotation.

Yeah, that one kind of got me a little bit just because, again, it's not anything against,

it's not anything against Majinsky himself.

I just feel he's best utilized in the bullpen.

And so maybe I...

Yeah, no, I get that, except that what's happened with him this spring,

and it's interesting, we have not talked about it,

is that he's developed over the course of the offseason,

a split-fingered fastball.

He wanted something to just keep hitters more honest off of his

stuff because he had been effective, as you're pointing out, one time through, which is what a

reliever does, if that. Yeah, right. Yeah. And instead, he wanted to be, you know, somebody who

could make it two, three times through the lineup.

Well, he goes and does what they call now pitch tunneling. And I say now because this really wasn't a thing 10 years ago.

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