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BP Daily: The Pirates' "treasure"

By Kevin Goldstein
Baseball Prospectus

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

On Monday, the Pittsburgh Pirates dropped an afternoon game to the Chicago Cubs to ensure their 17th consecutive losing season, an ignominious record for professional sports in North America. That said, the team is clearly working on, well, something. As the owner of a house built in the 19th century, I find myself using a fair amount of housing metaphors, and the way I see the Pirates is that the new administration began a gut rehab in 2008, but after a reassessment, 2009 became a complete tea ...

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