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Williams: Variability, Versatility, and Victory

It used to be really easy to run analysis on the offense of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

You could go to FanGraphs, pull up the offensive team leaders, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and see if the Pirates were last, or next to last.

Now?

I had to spend extra time searching through the rankings to discover that the Pirates rank 9th in wOBA (.334) and 12th in wRC+ (107) in all of baseball. They rank third in isolated power, seventh in walk rate, and have the ninth lowest strikeout rate. The team BABIP is a very conservative .