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Originally Posted by Matt from TN
I wonder if the Pirates can be this season's Reds, winning a pennant in the twilight of many vets' careers?
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I think the hitting will be okay, enough to keep us in contention. Vardaman and Perry won't hit like this all season (though they could surprise me), but Young will certainly pick it up and Menard and Ullom are as solid as ever. If Ike Walker can come up and play 3rd, Vardaman can move to 2nd, and I think we've got the bats to compete.
The real question is the pitching. Passing a good pitcher from the AL through waivers for an interleague trade is likely to be very difficult, so unless Dzurik discovers the fountain of youth and Tschetter comes up with another season like 1946... it's Fleischmann and...
I don't even have a second pitcher to play off the Spahn and Sain rhyme.
