The Pittsburgh Pirates are now 32 games into the 2016 Major League Baseball season and they are battling an issue that they have not had in quite a few years, a bad bullpen. The past three seasons the Pirate bullpen has been arguably the best in all of baseball and that is a big reason why they have made the postseason in three consecutive seasons.
However, so far in 2016 the bullpen has really struggled. From 2013-2015 the Pittsburgh Pirates ranked second in the Majors in bullpen ERA (2.94), fifth in FIP (3.48), sixth in xFIP (3.62), and eighth in WAR (10.