Year after year, avid baseball fans track what happens throughout Major League Baseball Spring Training. We assure ourselves that the results don’t really matter, and it’s probably mostly true that they don’t. And yet, as far as the Pittsburgh Pirates are concerned, we find ourselves looking for storylines, following games and attempting to identify player progression.
More than anything else, perhaps, is the importance of individual stats to suggest a burgeoning slugger or fireballer ace – but what about team stats?
Pittsburgh, 9-13 as of this writing, currently sports a run differential of -29. Run differential is, of course, the difference between runs scored and runs allowed, meaning the Bucs are currently being outscored at a fairly high clip.