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Your Team Ain't S#!t #1: The Pirates
Posted February 19th ago via Bugs and Cranks
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Obviously there is a void when it comes to objective team season previews and Devil Rays information on the internets.

Since no one else will, I will fill this void by previewing the 29 other MLB teams and comparing them to our beloved Devil Rays, in anticipation of the 2008 season which is sure to be the greatest in Devil Rays history….

Working backwards through the final Bugs & Cranks Top 30 rankings, we begin with The Pittsburgh Pirates….

Argument #1: The Plane Crash Test

It goes like this: imagine planes filled with the entire rosters of both teams were to tragically crash, say in the midst of a mercy mission somewhere in Central America, killing all aboard.

Quick: name the people you would miss.

Devil Rays: TMOTMCC James Shields, EGDC Carlos Pena, Scott Kazmir, BJ Upton, Troy Percival, Akinori Iwamura, Evan Longoria, Carl Crawford, Cliff Floyd, Al Reyes. (10)

Pirates: Doug Mientkiewicz. (1. Unless you don't want to count him since he was only signed to a minor-league contract, in which case, 0.)

Seriously. Am I missing anyone?

Would you miss Freddy '$18 million' Sanchez? Do you know who Freddy Sanchez is?

You wouldn't miss him. Just like you wouldn't miss their best offensive player, Xavier Nady, or Jason Bay or Adam LaRouche.

Or Tom Gorzelanny. Or Ian Snell.

Maybe they'll reach their full potential once they leave Pittsburgh. Just like Jason Kendall and Kris Benson did.

Argument #2: Let's compare offseasons.

Our D...

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