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Today the Stats Geek attempts to do what might seem impossible, put together a team full of ex-Pirates currently in the league that are worse than the Pirates that take the field on a daily basis. Incredibly, I think he succeeds with his much more expensive ex-Bucco squad. He also notes that Ty Wigginton isn't actually better than he was last year, people just think he is because he isn't a Pirate. I still don't like Wigginton, but even towards the end of last year (after we brought him back up and he mashed lefties for a couple of months) if given a choice between him and Jose Hernandez, I think I would've taken Wigginton. Then again, it'd be a challenge to think of who I'd actually take Jose Hernandez over, at this point.

Meanwhile, Dejan has found Chris Duffy and he appears to be suffering from Zach Greinke disease. To put it quite simply, it appears that he hates his job. Also in the same notebook, Jody Gerut will have knee surgery after all. There's no quotes from Gerut, but only because I assume that the PG won't print "Cram this right up your ass, Littlefield!"

Just for fun, if you check out the Win Probability graphs from FanGraphs for the last two games, Jose Hernandez has racked up a WPA of -26.4% in only two at-bats. Now that is impressive. I agree with the Stats Geek, time to add him to the list of awful ex-Pirates out there.

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