In this morning's Post-Gazette, Pirates GM Neal Huntington cites some arcane SABRmetric stat called "xFIP" to prove that Charlie Morton (1-8, 8.79 ERA) is a really good pitcher. He also states that in Monday's loss to the Phillies, Morton was just "five feet worth of groundballs away" (what does that mean, anyway?) from having a quality start against the defending NL champs. This in a game, by the way, that the Phillies squeaked by with a 12-2 victory over the Bucs.
And speaking of another of Neal's guys, it is nice that Aki Iwamura (.154) is causing all of us to remember the "glory years" when Mario Mendoza patrolled the middle infield for the Pirates.
And in the "Man Bites Dog" category of journalism, the PG printed a picture of John Russell actually arguing with an umpire from last night's game. Stop the presses, indeed.
I can't stand it!
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