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Pirates Pod To Be Named Later: About that new-look bullpen

DK Pittsburgh Sports: Daily podcasts on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates!

DK Pittsburgh Sports

Hockey, Steelers, Penguins, Football, Nfl, Matt Williamson, Nhl, Pittsburgh, Mlb, Baseball, Dejan Kovacevic, Dk Pittsburgh Sports, Pittsburgh Penguin, Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Steelers, Sports, Pirates

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Alex Stumpf praises the way the Pirates are deploying their relievers in new ways, but asks if it's sustainable for a full season. Also, what will it take to get the other half of the lineup going? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football.

0:07.0

What a fantastic night of football.

0:10.0

Including 10 Premier League games.

0:13.0

It doesn't get much better than that.

0:17.0

And Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match.

0:22.3

The biggest live games from the biggest leagues all wrapped up.

0:28.0

It's on Prime. There's a rule of thumb for baseball writers that whenever you talk or write about the bullpen before a game, you're just challenging the baseball gods.

0:58.2

Because who knows what's going to happen and it may be just mess up everything you have

1:03.2

planned. But I am going to challenge those baseball deities and talk a little bit about

1:09.4

the Pirates bullpen before they play here Friday night.

1:13.0

So if they gave up eight runs last night, you know who to blame.

1:17.0

Good morning and welcome to the Pirates podcast, to be named later, here on the DK.

1:21.9

Pittsburgh Sports Podcasting Network.

1:23.7

My name is Alex Stumpf.

1:26.7

I have to talk about this bullpen, though, because it's been

1:31.5

flat out terrific so far this year. And yeah, some of that, can we really count the bulk

1:41.1

guys as pure relievers?

1:45.3

Because they're scripted to get in the games.

1:48.4

There's a pretty noticeable rotation that you see Will Crow go every three days in this mix.

1:55.0

You can see some of it.

1:58.4

But, man, they have just been terrific so far this year.

2:02.3

The lowest batting average against entering play Friday of all bullpens in the National

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