The Pirates are one of those teams you don’t “really” hate. They’ve been around forever and they haven’t been good for awhile.
Even their mascot doesn’t inspire hate from our Mascot Correspondent Addy:
You’re right, Addy. He is silly.
2020 Pirates: 19-41 (fifth in the NL Central, dead last in all baseball)
The Pirates had a rougher season than most. They were not one of the teams that dumb-lucked their way into the expanded playoffs, and they had very little to actually be excited about. Ke’Bryan Hayes was a fantastic player on a terrible team, slashing .