Everything is on the one to day y'all, now hit.

Everything is on the one to day y'all, and don't forget.

Everything is on the one to day y'all, but that's where it's at.

Everything is on the one to day y'all, and now hit the back.

Good morning and welcome to episode 904 of Effectively Wild, the Daily.

podcast from baseball perspectives brought to you by the play index at baseball

reference.com and our supporters on Patreon. I'm Sam Miller along with Benlyn

from 538 Haven. Hello, how are you? I'm alright. I know who's not alright. I don't know.

Pirates pitching staff. No, they're not alright. I was just thinking this is

shaping up to be a pretty devastating year for the race

series as a genius narrative. It's definitely under threat right now. The pirates

are, let's say, by deserved run average for relievers. They are third worst by

deserved run average for starters. They are third worst by deserved run average

for the entire pitching staff. They are third worst and by C-FIP, I think they

are second worst. So it's been a pretty bad year for the pirates pitching

staff other than Garrett Cole and Mark Molanson. That's kind of it. And the

projects who were supposed to take a leap perhaps this year under Syrage's

tutelage haven't really won the Casio. Seems like he's on the verge of losing

his rotation spot. He's been pretty bad. I think he's struck out guys but hasn't

been great. I don't know who else was on that. John Nees and Neftali Feliz.

Yeah. Well, Neftali Feliz has been pretty good. So maybe we can give him that one.

Pretty good. Yeah, it's hard to know. It's always hard to know with a

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