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BP Daily: The Pirates can't win for losing

By John Perrotto
Baseball Prospectus

Friday, May 22, 2009

The Pirates had just returned home from an eight-game losing streak last week. The usual gaggle of scouts could be found sitting in the seats behind home plate at PNC Park, watching the home team face the Cardinals. The skid had dropped the Pirates seven games under .500 and seemingly put them on their way to a 17th consecutive losing season, which would break their tie with the 1933 to 1948 Philadelphia Phillies for the longest stretch of sustained futility in major American professional spor ...

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