John Toperzer

Pirates fan, Rotowire 18-year alumnus, college pitcher, card collector, lcms, friend.

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Bums me out that Bucs had 2nd best reliever on market last deadline and all they got was Rafael Flores and two "prospects". Sounds like Red Sox are going to get a haul for Aroldis Chapman. Yeh, maybe AC is better, but just wish Bucs would've gotten better return to help for 2026

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GMBC on Konnor Griffin: Timeline a little more conservative, given exact spot of muscle. Going to be part of lineup biggest chunk of season. Sounds like Griffin will be out longer than initially expected.

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GMBC on bullpen market: Every time is talking this time of year, getting that intel, what a team is ready/not ready to do. Every once in a while a team is ready to do something this early. Improvement can happen by guys on this team, certainly guys like M Montgomery.

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@BilakRonald No!!!! Love the Willie Stargell childhood card, the Roberto Clemente Game 4 WS card, the Rod Carew, Steve Garvey high no. The list goes on

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GMBC on Oneil Cruz: Walk rate creeping up toward last year. Quality at-bats. Teammates are helping too, in part because the lineup is deeper. Communication is adding up. He banged up his hand sliding into home. Tests were negative, think we avoided IL, right now he's day-to-day.

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GMBC on Braxton Ashcraft: I don't think any team has exact time 4 this. Loose confederacy of information coming together. We look at intensity of every inning. Bio of every outing. Look at self. Measure velo, shape, spin, good news there was no change yesterday. Prob inning range

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@BilakRonald Please don't do that to one of the favorite card sets of my childhood, lol. Next thing you'll be messing with the Charlie Sands card!

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GMBC on Joey Bart: Barring something unforeseen, he'll seen a rehab assignment starting this week. He really had to shut things down, entirely. We gotta build it back up. Sounds like rehab will be measured in weeks.

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GMBC on Bubba: Try to work with him toward better efficiency. We've seen the elite stuff, competed really well, stayed in there, showed competitor. Not every AB needs to be an event at 3-and-2. Get a little deeper into game and get some easy outs.

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GMBC on Skenes: Still throwing really hard, obviously. He's so good, doesn't need to throw 100 mph to be successful. We did have WBC, preparation for spring training a little bit different.

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GMBC on Brandon Lowe: Test were negative for fracture, right now we're looking at it as day-to-day. Hopefully we're looking at him for the Dodgers series (starting Tuesday).

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@1992Pirates Yes indeed!

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Went through 3200 count box of cards and all I found valuable was this creased Jim Leyland card. Score!

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Brandon Ashcraft allowed more earned runs (6) today than Paul Skenes has in his career (68 starts). It's great Bucs have two studs in rotation, but Skenes is still the King

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@KDPomp Soto was probably pondering how Bitcoin could be down to 60K and the nasdaq off 1121 points yesterday

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Brandon Lowe removed from game after fouling ball off right knee. Couldn't put any weight on knee

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@fantasybbhero They want the Baby Ruth update?

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Could've been interesting had Endy not swung at full count with a loopy swing and two on, down 6-3 in the 8th. Just not coming through with clutch hits right now

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@1992Pirates It hurts seeing Bill Robinson on the other side, but you can see his passion. What a good Bucco he was https://t.co/YpkB9zK1FP

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Acuna ran faster from second base to the dugout than from first to second base on that stolen base attempt