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The Pittsburgh Pirates Are Not A Shifty Bunch
Jason Rollison (Featured BBBA Writer/Owner – piratesbreakdown.com)
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Pittsburgh are shifting less in 2016 and their pitching is worse. Are these two related?
The Pittsburgh Pirates have earned a reputation around the league of being a very analytical front office and with good reason. The use of FIP and xFIP to find value starting pitching is well known, but the shift is where the Pirates really earned their stripes as a numbers-centric team.
From 2013-2015, the Pirates shifted a total of 2,446 times, which was good for third in all of baseball behind only the Houston Astros and the Tampa Bay Rays, two teams with sabermetric driven front offices of their own.
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