Pirates Podcast To Be Named Later: Class AAA stats don't matter THAT much

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4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In this episode, Alex Stumpf argues that Class AAA batting averages aren't enough reason to keep a top prospect in the minors. 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. The minor league season is three weeks old at this point, so I think it's about time we start
0:50.0	doing a little more prospect talk here.
0:52.9	Obviously small sample sizes for everyone, but we
0:56.1	can start to get a sense for how everyone is doing. Good morning and welcome to the Pirates
1:02.7	podcast to be named later here on the D.K. Pittsburgh Sports Podcasting Network. My name is
1:08.2	Alex Stumpf. We're going to have Jared Prugar on here for the
1:13.0	rest of the show here to talk some about Tuna baseball. But I want to start off here with
1:18.4	AAA. And you can't talk AAA Pirates Baseball without going to O'Neill Cruz,
1:31.0	who is past the deadline here where the pirates could call him up,
1:37.1	and unless he finishes for the top two of rookie of the year,
1:42.5	he will not accrue a full year of service time.
1:49.1	And with Kevin Newman on the injured list, it would seem to be a perfect opportunity to call him up.
1:56.6	I'm not going to speculate on why he hasn't.
1:59.4	We're supposed to be talking to Pirates General Manager Ben Charrington on Saturday afternoon.
2:05.1	So I'm not going to assume anything.
2:08.0	I would rather just talk to the general manager and ask that question of where does O'Neill
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