The B-team Red Sox face the always-a-B-team Pirates this afternoon in Florida behind Nick Pivetta (1:05 p.m., no local broadcast, but MLB.TV subscribers can watch the Pittsburgh broadcast).
Pivetta has been very good this spring, albeit over a handful of innings, as you can see from this tweet that I’m attaching so I don’t have to write out the stats myself:
So yes, we’ll take more of that more often, please. Pivetta was one of the last year’s overachievers and stands as a shining example of exactly what Chaim Bloom is trying to do with the pitching staff—throw stuff at the wall and see what works.