Hello and welcome to the Pirates fan Forum here on DK. Pittsburgh Sports Podcast Network.

I'm your host Gary Morgan.

With me as always, my good friend Jim Stim.

Jim, before you say hello, I just want to apologize that I didn't work hard enough to get us labeled as industry plants.

I'm very sorry.

Well, that's what the new year is for, sir.

There's always time to get corralled into some weird conspiracy that I'm sure will keep popping up from time to time because Twitter is weird.

Doug says happy new yinns. I like that. And yo from Seth Johnson, how you guys doing?

Thanks for joining us today.

So we're going to talk a little bit about the team itself,

some of the camp battles we think are going to happen,

we're going to start talking about this roster a little bit more full than we have in the past.

We're going to talk a little about it more as though this is the clay we're working with.

And I'm not doing that on purpose, Jim.

It's not that I don't think they're going to add something else or add more pieces or even more muddled NRI mess to the whole, you know,

puzzle before we start putting it together. But I think if you start looking at it now,

it paints a certain picture of what's here. And as I started doing this, Jim, it wasn't as bad as I guess I had worked myself up into believing it was.

I actually kind of think they're poised to take a step.

I feel like they outplayed.

They out kicked their coverage a little bit in 2023.

They underperformed last year drastically in some areas that I think are probably going to rebound pretty good.

It kind of makes me feel like they're going to get past 500 with or without additions.

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