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Classic Grind: Cutch uncut on Pittsburgh legacy

Each week during the ongoing apocalypse, I’ll revisit an older column that ran on this site, accompanied by a handful of current observations about it at the bottom.

This one ran July 22, 2017:

DENVER -- Andrew McCutchen is nothing less than Pittsburgh's generational baseball player. He's the best of the era, he's one of the best in franchise history, and he's now performing at a level that just might exceed any previous peak.

He was mired around the Mendoza Line for the better part of the season's first two months.