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Weekly Pirates Discussion: In Retrospect

Sometimes it can be very easy to find ourselves becoming attached to individual players.

In other times, it can be difficult to trust in a player that may be seeing a breakthrough.

We spend a lot time debating trades as they happen, and even years later, whether the trade was won or lost.

Baseball is ever-changing. What we thought mattered 10 years ago might not be the case now. Mitch Keller — someone who the fan base has slowly began trusting in — began seeing success after utilizing a sinker, a pitch that was synonymous with Ray Searage and the demise of the Pittsburgh Pirates.