The Pirates are the worst 15-20 team in the history of baseball

[TheLock]

-65 Run Differential

The 16-19 Marlins have a +16 Run Diff for reference

Wager accordingly on the Pirates moving forward, boys.

[thetrinity]

Yep, so obvious they are playing way over their heads. Their catchers are Michael perez and torontos former 4th stringer. Going to get ugly at any time.

Some good prospects though but won’t help in the short term

[alta]

Yet they won 2 of 3 from the "paper champs", the LA Dodgers.

[jjgold]

never chase teams up or down

[thetrinity]

Yet they won 2 of 3 from the "paper champs", the LA Dodgers.

They were due, it was like 4 years since they beat them before that

[d2bets]

Pitt 15-20 diff -65
Cubs 14-20 diff-2

TB 21-15 diff -2
Bos 14-21 diff -9

[deltgen]

That game they lost 21-0 to the Cubs earlier this year skewers the stat a bit.

[TheLock]

Yet they won 2 of 3 from the "paper champs", the LA Dodgers.

But this really doesn’t have much to do with my post though, right?

[DiggityDaggityDo]

Same as Reds

-65 diff

And Reds have a worse record

[KiDBaZkiT]

They aren’t as bad as they usually are. Run diff means little other than how much you lose by when you lose or how much you win by when you win. As mentioned above losing by 20+ in one game early in the season certainly skews that number a bit. Adding Vogelbach has given them some power they usually don’t have. Reynolds and Hayes not bad pieces either. Pitching still abysmal though.

[TheLock]

They aren’t as bad as they usually are. Run diff means little other than how much you lose by when you lose or how much you win by when you win. As mentioned above losing by 20+ in one game early in the season certainly skews that number a bit. Adding Vogelbach has given them some power they usually don’t have. Reynolds and Hayes not bad pieces either. Pitching still abysmal though.

I couldn’t disagree more.