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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.

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

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

the Pirates bullpen before they play here Friday night.

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

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

Pittsburgh Sports Podcasting Network.

My name is Alex Stumpf.

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

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

guys as pure relievers?

Because they're scripted to get in the games.

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

You can see some of it.

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

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

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